> 1/ if it is not done already, support for reading/writing compressed > lyx files should be removed: it has no interested wrt .zip file > version.
I agree. It does not make sense to keep two compressed version. I am not sure if lyx2lyx decompress compressed lyx file though. > 2/ is the new zip base version designed such that a "file" utility can > guess its type based on the first few characters of the binary file? > It could be doable if the first file (the manifest?) is stored instead > of deflated. Yes. It is a regular zip file. It is not easy to get .lyx or manifest version without unzipping it first though. > 3/ another option would be to make sure that the .lyx file is first, > so that utilities like zcat can read them transparently like gzipped > files (not sure about the utility of that though). This is a good idea but I am not sure if python/zipfile can read the first few bytes of the first file easily. > 4/ I really thing that we should change the extension for bundles (I > like .lyz personally). > > a) it allows for automatic processing of files > b) when an end-user receives a .lyz file, he knows that everything > needed is in there. With a .lyx file it is expected that some things > are missing. If we remove the compression feature, this makes sense. Still, what about my 'open file.lyx, enable embedding, save to file.lyz' scenario? This looks weird to me. > 5/ if we want our bundle format to be useful, it should have a > directory form (if possible compatible with OSX bundles). The big > advantage is that such files could be possibly put under version > control. We do not have to do that right now, but the design should > reflect this need. It is there. > BTW, is there a place where the format of a LyX bundle is defined? A > wiki page would be nice. Right now, the bundle format of file.lyx is file.lyx manifest.txt (a pseudo-XML format) embed1.png (file that is under the same directory with file1.lyx) sys1.png (file that is out side of document directory) dir/embed2.png (file that is under the document directory) > These things are important, since we are going to live with this file > format, and we should do it right since the first time. Agreed. Bo
