The only reason I can think of for it not being 1.0 already is that the people making it wanted to support every codec known to man first (which they practically do now). I also think they should work to make installation much easier, as it is you have to dl all the codecs, and the skins (should at least come with a default), and a font, and package them automatically, plus make vorbis on by default. As it is there is still a hell of a lot of dling unpacking and putting x files in x directorys, plus a long long list of options that are put after the ./configure. As far a functionality goes though, its certainly ready.
