Apologies for the long delay, however for anyone not watching http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Paged_course_formats I'm happy to announce that things are definitely happening! Please see the discussion Proposed paged course format changes for 2.3/2.4 for details.
Courses and course formats
The proposed new course format for Moodle Core
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