[artagnon]

To clarify: "I give up" was referring to giving up on the argument in that subthread, not on the idea in general. It requires a lot of hard work and perseverance to get something this disruptive merged; I'm merely taking a break to do more groundwork before coming back with a v2 of the approach.

I have utmost respect for Junio, Linus and the others, but realize that they have some negative attributes like all human beings do. Junio can be especially defensive when it comes to something new, although it's not completely without reason. After all, we do have an ultra-stable and well-maintained piece of software because of him.