Whither split base?

[Edward Kmett]

Development in this direction is an open process. The key would be finding
sufficient will amongst members of the community to make it happen.

-Edward

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:09 PM Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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