Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My argument is just that even if you backport the important features > of a new release into an old codebase, it's hard to make any valuable > claims about the resulting product if the "backport" changes more than > a few lines of code.
This is true if you don't know what you just did. If you know what you did, you may well be able to make a claim like "no new command line features are added".