I wonder whether it would make sense for work in this area to (like Git) distinguish between plumbing and porcelain. So once the plumbing is written (with a ref

I wonder whether it would make sense for work in this area to (like Git) distinguish between plumbing and porcelain. So once the plumbing is written (with a reference implementation in Python or similar) it would hopefully be an easy matter for people to write porcelains to top of it.