On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:56:34PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 20/07/2019 ?? 07:03, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : >> Am Freitag, den 19.07.2019, 22:03 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >>> I do not see the point of doing that, so I want to know what I miss. >> AFAIU the point is just to increase the version number to let older >> versions on LyX know that these prefs are not for them (otherwise they >> will complain about unknown prefs). > > So it is the same when I introduce a new lfun? Just for the pleasure of > breaking compatibility? I am not sure it is useful, since anyway what our > user see is the jump between stable releases versions.
I think you are right that increasing pref version make sense only for cases like renaming or deleting lfuns, where pref2pref conversion routines have some reasonable stuff to do (rename or delete lfuns within existing prefs). Pavel
