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> The people using stuff this ancient are unlikely to want to upgrade
> pcb anyway.  As you've argued yourself in the past, for them to
> suffer all the old version would have to somehow magically
> disappear.  I don't want to assume this is just a setup to make
> going C99 impossible, but you can probably see how it might look
> that way.

You're missing the point.  You keep guessing what our user base should
be doing, and not asking our user base what they *are* doing.  I've
listed the things we need to know and the steps we need to take before
we can make an informed decision that we haven't made, and you keep
trying to justify the change based on guesses and suppositions.

So to reiterate in summary...

1. Find out what our user base *has*.  This may include potential user
   base (Windows, BSD).

2. Figure out what the side-effects of the change *will be*

3. *Decide* amongst ourselves to do it or not.