Grubb

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Looking less and less likely that this will be a double release month
It's possible he's already writing the next one while whatever issue he has with the current release is being sorted out. That would explain the insistence on two releases.
 

Cartageno

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Which once again can serve as a reminder that the number of updates or by extension the version number are insufficient indicators of progress, since they don't tell anything about the amount of content and other stuff (bugfixes, QOL issues, reworked mechanics) you find in a game that wasn't there before.
 

Draakaap23

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Which once again can serve as a reminder that the number of updates or by extension the version number are insufficient indicators of progress, since they don't tell anything about the amount of content and other stuff (bugfixes, QOL issues, reworked mechanics) you find in a game that wasn't there before.
Very true.
I would argue that version numbers are poorly understood a lot of the times, since there is no official way version numbering is agreed upon. Users should read change logs or bug reports, not look at version numbers, that is not for them! A v0.9.9 release, does not mean it is nearly done! It means the programmer gave it that number for whatever his/her reasons may be, that is all!
Version numbering is for programmers to keep track of their projects, not for the Users! If you want to use version numbering as a User, you need to understand the programmers-logic. And programmer logic can be pretty stupid, since they decide what that logic is!
 

Cartageno

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Very true.
I would argue that version numbers are poorly understood a lot of the times, since there is no official way version numbering is agreed upon. Users should read change logs or bug reports, not look at version numbers, that is not for them! A v0.9.9 release, does not mean it is nearly done! It means the programmer gave it that number for whatever his/her reasons may be, that is all!
Version numbering is for programmers to keep track of their projects, not for the Users! If you want to use version numbering as a User, you need to understand the programmers-logic. And programmer logic can be pretty stupid, since they decide what that logic is!
Which already includes the numbers themselves.

After 0.9.9 you can have any of 0.9.9a; 1.0.0; 0.10.0; 0.9.10; 0.91.0 - and almost anything else which tickles your fancy.
 
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Very true.
I would argue that version numbers are poorly understood a lot of the times, since there is no official way version numbering is agreed upon. Users should read change logs or bug reports, not look at version numbers, that is not for them! A v0.9.9 release, does not mean it is nearly done! It means the programmer gave it that number for whatever his/her reasons may be, that is all!
Version numbering is for programmers to keep track of their projects, not for the Users! If you want to use version numbering as a User, you need to understand the programmers-logic. And programmer logic can be pretty stupid, since they decide what that logic is!
Like the versioning scheme for TeX...
 
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