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Reorganize common code and backend

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the common code currently housed in the dss_python_backend package and how DSS contexts relate to CffiApiUtil. Check the implications of the earlier CFFI and Obj/Alt API moves, and consider issue #2 before deciding whether a separate package is appropriate. Done means reaching and documenting an agreed package organization.

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Description

⚙️ backend

Since the introduction of DSS contexts, it makes more sense to call CffiApiUtil something based on DSSContext.

The CFFI backend was succesfully split into the dss_python_backend package a while ago. Recently, we moved the Obj/Alt API code to https://github.com/dss-extensions/AltDSS-Python

With this, some of the common code was moved from DSS-Python to dss_python_backend. It might better to create a separate package, but waiting some time to see if we are wasting too much time handling the common code at dss_python_backend, and there is also #2 which might shake things.

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