Critical Description
I'd like to suggest that until the V2 stats are properly integrated, or the old InkAPI stats system is fixed, that we make the V2 stats system ./configure time enabled. E.g.
./configure --with_statsv2
The problem I'm having with the V2 stats is that they a) Don't integrate with the existing CLI, b) runs its own thread and TCP listen port and c) does not integrate with any of the old (existing) features and subsystems around stats, for things like stats aggregation and the XML configurable stats.