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On 6/14/05, mental@...3... <mental@...3...> wrote:
Sort of. If I remember correctly, we decided we prefered it as an external extension rather than something compiled into Inkscape itself (so we could avoid yet another binary dependency).
As for me, I would not mind at all if it is internal. This format is important enough fort an internal handler. The reason that patch is not taken care of is that we considered spalah.sf.net to be more developed and wanted to try to make it an external extension for Inkscape. The author of Spalah started working on that (http://spalah.sourceforge.net/?p=19) but it seems like that work has stalled.
I think it's an important thing to have done, so if there is anyone willing to further this it would be excellent. You'd need to examine spalah's current state, contact its author, and develop it from there eventually including it into Inkscape distribution. Any takers?