"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:14:15PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: >> In my opinion, the problems when reading old files (bugs #374,#375,#376) >> are unacceptable. >> >> I suggest a different approach for this problem: >> the conversion should be done by an outside script and not in LyX source code. >> Attached is a proof of concept script that converts minipages & float from >> old format to new format. >> The script correctly handle the test case of bugs #374,#375,#376. >> Comments? > | Great! > | This is the direction that we should be going in when we are handling | file format changes. I think that newer LyX should not be burdened | with supporting older file formats. Instead, convertor scripts should | be provided.
Yes, this is absolutely the way we want to go, but we will not do so completely for 1.2.0. For 1.3.0 otoh we should be able to have a good framework for this in place. -- Lgb