Bo Peng wrote:
I am not sure this is a good idea. For example, people doing scripting
would be very unhappy to see that the file format is not predictable.
So you prefer a zipped file with an empty manifest? What do you mean
by 'doing scripting'? Do you expect people to manually unzip a bundled
file?
He meant people who modify a LyX file using a shell script or something
like that. So you do
for i in *.lyx; do grep 'bad idea' $i; done
and expect that you're grepping text files. Not a huge problem there,
but if you were modifying them, you might have a problem.
As I said, this could be problematic anyway, since some LyX files might
be compressed and some might not be. JMarc responded that it was
"predictable" if you knew how the preferences were set, but preference
settings change. I suspect I have some compressed files and some
non-compressed files lying around. So IF we're going to introduce a new
extension for your embedded files, THEN I think we should also introduce
one for these other files. What to do about backwards compatibility is
another isssue.
Richard
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