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Andrew Schultz3 years ago

Yes, you're right! I saved a copy of the original-for-ParserComp ZIP. I should upload it and mark it as such, even though it has some obvious bugs I cringe at. And yes, it also causes a problem with save states between versions--I put in a topic at intfiction.org on how to get around that.

The middle 2 point-releases could be recreated, because I have source control. (If you have them, I'd be glad to add them.)

I took the IFComp path of just having the 1st release and the final one available, as I want to limit my fixes to the technical side, and also to something extremely unlikely to regress with proper testing.

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Garry Francis3 years ago(+1)

I don't have the middle two releases (nor do I need them). I downloaded all the games at the beginning of the comp. Yours was release 1. Then I saw that there were a few updates from you blog entries, so I downloaded the latest and saw that it was still release 1. This could be confusing if, for example, IFDB said the latest version was release 1 and you've got release 1, so you think it's up-to-date, but it's actually got some bugs that have been fixed in a later release 1.

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Andrew Schultz3 years ago

Good point ... yeah, release numbers fall into an odd gap for me. I like being able to have point releases, so I think of those as 1.0.1, 1.1, etc., which I round down to 1.

That's how it is in a full development environment, but it doesn't need to be the case here. There's a part of me that feels a 2.0 release for fixing a minor bug is overpromising, but I think it's good to differentiate the latest release from the initial release, and since Inform doesn't allow point-releases, I might as well make it release 2.

So it seems like a reasonable compromise for the future is to have release 2 be any in-comp changes since release 1, then release 3 be a quick turnaround for post-comp features with additional content.

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