Comment 42 for bug 27867

Actually, the correct way to handle this problem is to select a team of programmers and a director to lead them. Then have them work on a parallel product to replace the existing program with a better, more streamlined version with properly modular, segmented and documented code that would be conducive to the addon process. Then when it is released, it would supercede the existing without scaring away any users or addon programmers.

It may not be as big a project as people might perceive. It just needs to reuse the good existing code, while bringing it up to twenty-first century standards.