Go ahead and axe it. Nobody will be sad :)


On Aug 23, 2016 18:36, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there still any sense in keeping our support for SVG JAR files?  As
> I understand it, this is an obsolete StarOffice file archive format
> that has since been removed from LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
>
> In fact, as far as I can tell Inkscape itself does not support these
> archives... only Inkview does.
> We no longer even provide an explicit option in our build system to
> support InkJar.
>
> Is it OK for me to go ahead and remove support, or does anyone know of
> a reason we still need this?

I think it should be ok to remove.  I remember when it was added; I
think we had visions of it being used in ways that never quite
materialized.  Ted Gould would be worth pinging on this.

Bryce

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