Experimental implementation of liquid-hg

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:21:37PM +0100, Isaac Jurado wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
> > Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
> I remember talking about this Liquid thing on IRC and I had the
> impression that the purpose is something like having mutable history
> (i.e. liquid) and immutable history (i.e. frozen),  where you could
> transfer or synchronize both.  In other words, like MQ on steroids.

(TL;DR; at the bottom)

I had hours of discussion about sharing mutable history with Adrien Chauve (a
co-worker at Logilab). We had discussion about sharing during the sprint too.
There is valid usecase for sharing liquid history. They is multiple way to do
it.  Doing it properly is not a simple problem. The whole stuff is very
interesting.

But if we want to be able to share you liquid history someday, liquid history
must exists. I think we should stay focus on "How pure local liquids history
should behave" until we reach a stable user API. Let's use an incremental
approach, first we get working liquid at the local scale, then starts thinking
about sharing them.

I'll respond to idea/question about "how to share liquids" in a separated
emails with a different subject.

TL;DR;

- Sharing liquids is an interesting issue. But please help us first to freeze
  local semantics of liquids before debating about it.

- Storing liquids is an interesting issue. But please help us first to freeze
  local semantics of liquids before debating about it.

-- 
Pierre-Yves
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