Re: [Chicken-users] Why is the format egg "redundant or unsupported"?

[felix winkelmann]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Matthew Welland <address@hidden> wrote:
> While I really like eformat I tend to use the format egg quite a bit. It has
> no external dependancies and works everywhere (i.e. at work, on the nokia
> n800 etc.).
>
> I hope that being down in that section of the eggs page doesn't imply that
> the format egg is at risk of going away? If so is there another format
> implementation with minimal dependencies that I should be using instead?
>

If this is the case, we can just un-unsupport it. There is
format-modular (but is
has quite a number of dependencies) and fmt, which is much cooler (but
has the odd bug, IIRC). But if you like the old format egg to stay, it stays.


cheers,
felix