Hi, I have been busy and did not had much to develop in LyX but here are some of my thoughts on the subject of compression.
I don't care so much if we drop the feature of reading compress files with lyx as long as the program deals with lyx.gz files. This should satisfy Jean-Marc since non embedded files will be standard text and it will keep me satisfied since lyx retains the ability to work with compressed files. Any objection? -- José Abílio