Whither split base?

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 22:53:40 UTC 2018


its simple: trying to reduce the coupling / interdependency of different
pieces of base so they can literally be (at least internally) structured as
distinct packages / libraries
(so as to fascilitate better experimentation or support for exotic
platforms)

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:46 PM Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could someone articulate on this "split base"? What does this mean
> exactly? Having one or more versions of officially supported 'base'-like
> libraries?
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:17 PM Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We had two different people join the CLC with the express wish of working
>> on it. Both of them seemed to recoil at the scale of the problem after
>> going deeper, and progress ground to a halt.
>>
>> We _do_ have a few open slots on the committee though. I'm putting out an
>> open call for folks to join the committee today. Maybe someone interested
>> in diving into the problem might apply. =)
>>
>> -Edward
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:06 AM Carter Schonwald <
>> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just remembered that it was one of the ongoing things the CLC was
>>> involved with, for a while.  Has there been recent action there ?
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