"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
