^^ nice links, thanks.
Launch is when Ethereum launches and starts accepting pull requests again.
Is that a joke?
No?
They don't want to fork it so that if/when ethereum fails all the Daap devs can migrate to Counterparty without rewriting anything. Ethereum is not accepting pull requests from Counterparty until after launch.
At least that's my understanding of it.
If the pull request will fork the etherium if they don't accept it, then I think they will not accept it after launch cause they certainly don't want to hard fork just after launching. In the other hand, if they don't care about hard forking in the initial stage, then they may do some breaking changes after smart contract being enabled in counterparty mainnet. in that case, does counterparty do a hard fork too? Therefore, I don't think there's a chance to be fully compatible with etherium after their launch if we cannot do it now.