> I don't know. I'm always only focused on the combination of user-visible > changes and risks of bugs (which are user-visible changes btw). So if we > can do it without breaking too much code, then it can be backported. What > we have now is something which is apparently insufficient to some users > so we can improve the situation. I wouldn't want to remove prefer-* or > change the options behavior or whatever for example.
Ok, if we don't remove existing prefer-* keywords a 1.6 backport sounds possible without user visible breakage, great. lukas