Bennett Helm wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> I think most people will not be able to be consistent over such
a prolonged
> discussion...
Consistency would be easy to achieve if people know what they are
doing and have a clear mind during the discussions. Shifting back and
forth makes the discussions difficult and wastes other's time. If you
have noticed, my proposal has not changed a bit, and Richard has said
"I could do that in your way as well" a few times.
Do I dare jump in? ... Maybe just a toe in the waters.
As I understand Richard, consistency isn't the issue; flexibility is.
He's trying to show that his basic approach is flexible enough to
handle zip if people want that and not handle it if people don't
(where "people" could be LyX developers allowing or disallowing the
zip feature, or -- if developers did decide to allow it -- it could be
users who select a checkbox to zip their particular document or not).
Thank you. Or again: I'm trying to concentrate on very general questions
about how these two proposals work. The question, "Do you use zip or tar
or base64?" is just not worth discussing at this point. Nor is the
question, "Do you store the file mapping in the session file, the LyX
file, or under a rock?" These are questions either of us could decide
either way, and that could change at any time without affecting the
fundamental ideas of the approaches, even between LyX 1.7 and 1.8. THAT
is why I haven't been "consistent". These kinds of details just aren't
what ought to be at issue.
Richard
