no, not quite.
pete boughton would discuss it with us for a week or so, before deciding whether to do it.
then he'd wonder whether to go for 3 or 3.5 for another week, based on some article he had read suggesting that there may be an obscure bug in 3.5 that makes certain things that no one ever uses run very slowly.
then he'd implement it in cod(sic) fusion.