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> Maybe the question should be changed into: Why can't allegro read
> GIF/PNG/JPG/MP3/TTF/AVI files?
Because the answer isn't the same for all these formats.
> > Besides, PNG is better.
This, I believe, is the crux of the matter. Supporting GIF and not
supporting PNG would be politically abhorrent to the Linux-advocacy comunity
that is taking over Allegro.
I still believe that Allegro should natively support at least one image
format common on the Internet, and of the three most common, GIF is the
least problematic: it's a tiny bit of code compared to PNG or JPG and is no
longer under patent. It's unfortunate that GIF comes with political
baggage, and even more unfortunate that we bow to it. I mean, why on earth
do we support LBM instead of GIF? When was the last time you loaded an LBM
file?
--Chris