Arecibo feature

[porcuquine]

We should create an arecibo feature that allows swapping in arecibo for Nova, so we can iterate on interfaces using arecibo as a lab for that purpose.

[huitseeker]

I don’t think this is likely to work: arecibo needs to replicate https://github.com/lurk-lab/nova/tree/dev, which means it needs to depend on Nova master (to bypass the release latency).

Here’s the diff between Nova-released and Nova-master as of today: https://github.com/microsoft/nova/compare/b42938e..a951505

TL;DR, the difference will quickly require source discrepancies based on whether Lurk sits on top of Nova released or arecibo. Arecibo as the main dependency of Lurk (with a branch compatible with Nova-released, maintained as time permits) seems less to involve a lot less work.

[porcuquine]

Okay, let's instead fully switch to a Git dependency on Arecibo, for now — to be replaced with release versions as it matures. In other words, no feature flag, straight up replacing our backend to keep things simple.