Comment 1 for bug 1902937

I have taken up the PINES code for Quipu integration and am working on making something generic that can be added to master. I'll have a collab branch to share in a few days.

I plan to strip out the KCLS and PINES specific bits and squash commits to leave the original history as coherent as possible. This will cause KCLS and PINES some pain once this goes in, but I'm not sure that can be helped.