Agreed. It just seems a shame to let a reasonably robust, mature codebase which is all-knowing about a very widely-used piece of technology go gentle into that

Agreed. It just seems a shame to let a reasonably robust, mature codebase which is all-knowing about a very widely-used piece of technology go gentle into that good night. Surely someone out there has a new and previously unimagined (by me) use for it.