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+SaneEconomy
+===========
+
+Finally, a **sane** economy plugin for Bukkit.
+
+## About
+
+I was looking for an economy plugin for a server I administrate, and I noticed something quite strange.
+
+All of the plugins are years outdated, built against Bukkit API versions as old as Minecraft 1.2.4, and often have loads of bug reports,
+both in the comments on BukkitDev/SpigotMC, and on GitHub, all with no response from the developer!
+
+I decided that it was time for a change. I wanted a working, updated economy plugin for Bukkit, built against the latest API. So I wrote one myself.
+
+## Development
+
+Our dependencies are managed with Gradle instead of Maven. Other than that, it's a pretty standard development workflow.
+We try to stick to [SemVer](http://semver.org/), but it's rather difficult with a Bukkit plugin so in reality our version numbers are almost meaningless.
+Generally, new releases should be built against the latest Spigot/Bukkit at the time the release is published.