Just for the records... it is our belief that to discover new grounds (read: more speed, increased stability, new features) you have to break compatibility. Developer situation is irrelevant as we always had only 2 and a half one and I don\'t see signs of new people regardless of us continuing to use an outdated compiler.
We will break compatibility even more (read: totally), when we move to a faster and smaller libc (uClibc). Oh and btw., the Opie team will break compatibility also, because they will move to Qt/Embedded 4.
The SharpROM for the SA-models is outdated and unmaintained anyway, so why try to be compatible?