I'm not sure how, entirely, serious I was being in my previous post... sorry...

Of course, you're right Wolf. The priority for SM should be sorting out the current areas where users complain of shortcomings, before bolting on more stuff.

That said, if dealing with the points you mention around Firefly and the shader set up system of the advanced material room was to involve a deep level revision of the code base there, at some point, you never know... it could open up scope for at least laying the groundwork for integrating a library such as this one?

I personally don't imagine any such major overhaul is happening any time soon though... and I'd probably rather see the apparent, current approach of incremental, sensible revision continue for now too... in the direction of addressing the issues you mention... if that is possible, than see any more radical approach, I guess.

Still, interesting news about this library being open sourced... and I really must take a closer look at the personal learning edition of Houdini at some point.