Really? ed existed before GNU ed, so at the very start of the project you can basically implement all of the existing features. The "parent" probably doesn't ad

Really? ed existed before GNU ed, so at the very start of the project you can basically implement all of the existing features. The "parent" probably doesn't add any new features, and there probably isn't a broad userbase crying about missing bits. So even with creeping featurism, POSIX_ME_HARDER and other GNU mainstays, I wouldn't think that after the 1.0 release you'd need plenty of new releases. GNU tar is at 1.3x, and is probably both a bigger bug vector and target for "please add this --long-option-for-edge-case".