Richard Heck wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Bo Peng wrote:
If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office
filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with.
Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents
end up
being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example.
We should choose a file format that serves LyX well. I agree with you
that OOo format is better than MS format but this does not matter
here. OOo/Word users *does not* use external files.
You surely meant "*most* users do not use external files". But this
is of course possible and not very hard, at least for MS Word.
And I find this a red herring. The implementation I've proposed allows
you to "work with external files" in the sense that the "internal"
files are still linked to the "external" files in a way that allows
the former to be updated from the latter. I'm not sure what more one
would want. We could even have an "auto-update" flag that would, well,
do the updates automatically.
"auto-update" would be interesting.
Abdel.
