On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:10:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've noticed that linking to this page seems to kill threads, which is
> not my intent, but: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/
>
> The idea still seems reasonable to me, and the work required, beyond
> what is already done, not too much. Shame that nobody has tried to do it
> yet.
I've always found CUT to be an interesting (thought) experiment.
A particular nice feature of how you present it, is that it's modular
enough to be tried with little impact on the rest of Debian; as you
observe: « most of which [needed ingredients] are already being done on
a best-effort basis ». So, in principle, nothing stops you or anyone
else to actually form a CUT team and experiment with the idea. That's
probably the only way forward from CUT-is-a-thread-killer to have data
that support the feasibility / user appreciation of the idea.
Have you ever actually tried to call people to arms and *form* the CUT
team? (Or maybe that was exactly the point of your mail …)
Cheers.
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