March 2, 2010
9:38 p.m.
Dirkjan's reasoning here is correct. However, we may be at the point where we've reached diminishing returns on letting this prevent the changeover - perhaps it is time to force the issue by actually switching the development process, documenting the use of the hg-eol extension for anyone that needs it and continuing on from there.
The risk, of course, is to lose Mark Hammond as a contributor.
Regards, Martin