Spoetnik I am not sure if you realize it, maybe you do, but Christian (cbuchner1) writes and maintains both programs, so it is very common for everyone to just use whichever has the latest coin or improvements integrated.

I honestly don't know the reasons there are two programs, but they might as well be called cudaminer 1 & 2 for all I care.

I get the technical reason for what you are asking, but all these multi-hundred page threads are way past the point of manageability or useful history because 'we already talked about that' could take somebody 3 weeks just to catch up anyhow.

If I was new and had to read 800 pages just to find out there is another program or mod that was working on the coin I wanted it would drive me nuts.

Just my input.

Now back to the crazy show.