What does this means for end users?
nothing.
we are removing some *users* of glamour.
Not glamour itself and certainly not the gttools that use glamour intensively (and they allow easy extension).
I use Glamour extensively... does it mean that I will have to abandon all that code, or just that I need to load Glamour explicitly?
Glamour is not leaving the image!
cheers,
Esteban
ps: but there are leaks around we would like to discover how and when they happen (because they are not so many and not evident). Any help there is welcome :)