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On 08/24/2018 07:51 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 8/23/2018 2:05 PM, Chris Dent wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Dan Smith wrote:
>>
>>> ...and it doesn't work like mock.sentinel does, which is part of the
>>> value. I really think we should put this wherever it needs to be so that
>>> it can continue to be as useful as is is today. Even if that means just
>>> copying it into another project -- it's not that complicated of a thing.
>>
>> Yeah, I agree. I had hoped that we could make something that was
>> generally useful, but its main value is its interface and if we
>> can't have that interface in a library, having it per codebase is no
>> biggie. For example it's been copied straight from nova into the
>> placement extractions experiments with no changes and, as one would
>> expect, works just fine.
>>
>> Unless people are wed to doing something else, Dan's right, let's
>> just do that.
> 
> So just follow me here people, what if we had this common shared library 
> where code could incubate and then we could write some tools to easily 
> copy that common code into other projects...

Sounds masterful.

> I'm pretty sure I could get said project approved as a top-level program 
> under The Foundation and might even get a talk or two out of this idea. 
> I can see the Intel money rolling in now...

Indeed, I'll open the commons bank account.

Ciao,
-jay