Whither split base?

Daniel Cartwright chessai1996 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 23:08:51 UTC 2018


interesting, makes sense. can anyone volunteer?

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:53 PM Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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