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

[Matthew Welland]

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?

Matt
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