I agree that we should not make such a change so close to a release. Unless any of the patches you talked about address serious problems, I would also hold off on those.
Ok that's fine, I'll wait until the release has been completed to apply the patches.
In future, will there be issues with keeping the web-accessible GetComponents script up-to-date automatically from the github repo?
No, GitHub supports post-commit hooks to take care of that. For example, I have a simple PHP script on my
website that downloads the current version of GetComponents when it is pinged by GitHub. The current master