i recently learned that the MNE and BrainStorm packages make use of surfaces created by the BrainSuite application, and subsequently discovered that BrainSuite does not support the Gifti format (as far as I am aware). Does anybody know why this is the case? Should the BrainSuite developers be convinced of the wonders of Gifti?

(as an aside, i'm working to add gifti io support to MNE)