Look at the impact of not having 2.0 modules severely limited the acceptance of 2.0. Not having 1.4 modules will most certainly do the same*. If 1.4 == 1.3, binary-wise, then it's a non-issue; if not, it's a *major* issue.
* Yes, part of the delay was due to porting, which may not be one with 1.4. But we are *still* talking about distribution, support, etc.. of a load of modules.
In my experience, there are a lot of people out there who are running older versions of application servers, and upgrading to Apache v2.0 would also mean upgrading to a newer application server release that supports Apache v2.0. The questions asked were invariably "our app server (and associated dependancy on v1.3) works now, so why upgrade?".
Regards, Graham --
