[10:56] <cjwatson> wgrant: Sort of.  I was looking into how that kind of thing works to figure out whether I have a hope of understanding it well enough to extend it.
[10:57] <wgrant> cjwatson: Ah, probably not worth you doing that...
[10:58] <cjwatson> Right, wasn't sure :)
[10:58] <cjwatson> It was going to be a plane project since I had nothing else to do, but then I unaccountably slept instead.
[10:58] <wgrant> It's reasonably horrific, and there's not a whole lot of code to be written.
[10:58] <wgrant> !
[10:58] <wgrant> How awful.
[11:15] <cjwatson> I think the slave side is reasonably ready now, in any case.  I don't remember what we decided we needed to improve in longpoll-land ...
[11:16] <cjwatson> Oh, though I should do a bit more work on failure handling
[11:18] <cjwatson> Though maybe not worth it, recipes don't have any special handling for "fundamental recipe-building packages not installable"