>> If I understand correctly, it means that the current source tree is
>> comdemned to die.
>
> Your understanding is correct, but whether your work (as well as my
> work) is meaningless depends on your standard of value. I myself don't
> think I'm wasting time, because: [...]
Well, hard features are not wasted, because they will surely
transmigrate to the new code base. On the other hand, the details that
I'm dealing with may be wasted (depending on when the new code base
will replace the current one).
> 4. I doubt if 1.0 will be released before PC is obsolete. If PC
> disappears, the current source code would be useless, anyway.
Well, the PC is not (unfortunately) designed to die. I understand that
grub is. Not that I'm new at working on dead projects: I started gpm
in 1994, when it was already clear that graphics environment were
going to reach any desk. And even me, at last, switched to graphics in
1999 -- in order to fit 9 text terminals in one screen while still getting
xbiff and other flags as extra bonus.
/alessandro
