I'm more of a contributor than 'one of the developers'. The stuff I do consists mostly of satellite functions, not big core things (or more patch monkey-like tasks, like the RC1 and RC2* integration patchsets). I'm not generally clued-in much on the gritty details since I rarely ever go into the IRC channel (one reason is that my development and testing environments have a fairly high separation from one another, making IRC participation difficult, although I'm also just not much for chatting on IRC anyway).
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which is extremely paltry and affects no central code stuff in avsplus.
r1779 is not actually the newest revision from git; that would be r1825 (or r1833, if rc2integrate gets merged with no other additional commits).
I had uploaded a build r1825 to my MediaFire account some time ago but didn't post it because I was thinking we were on the cusp of 0.2 being released. It might have resolved the issues you're having already, so I guess I'll just go ahead and post the link:
AviSynth+ r1825