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20 years and not a 1.0 release yet? Makes me wonder what release numbers mean to people. In this case, I guess 0.x does not mean that it is not considered ready/mature for production use; and does not mean that it is unstable and could change in wildly backwards incompat ways from release to release?

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If you read the changes of 0.8.7, you will see e.g. the bumping pathfinding. I stopped playing on trying out GemRB for the first time when NPCs stood in the door and I simply could not advance; that's game-breaking. The next version will also have a major refactoring on another part, still lots to do.

I guess there's something interesting about a 20-year-old project whose community of utilizing developers is okay with no predictability or guarantees of backwards compat?

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