>> Your agument is amazingly similar to Richard's "A world's simplest >> script can solve this". I will not argue here but I would remind you >> that LyX is used by many users, many of whom do not know how to write >> a script, or know such an advanced feature of svn. The KISS idea >> should be applied mostly to them, not us. > > What this really mean is that you didn't really understand Richard's > argument. The svn helper script would of course be written and distributed > by us, not by the casual user. For example svn knows how to call MSWord or > OOffice to generate a track change enabled diff. That's what I propose, a > python script that knows how to unbundle/unembed, that knows about lyx2lyx > and also (ideally) about track change.
And for cvs users, and for git users, and for mecurial users? Do you expect our installer or users to install these scripts? What business are we in? I was not saying that you should choose my proposal because of this, you do not really care and you can solve this problem if you have to. All I wanted to say is that from this particular aspect, base64 has an advantage over zip, you can not simply deny it. You can put a zero weight for this particular problem when you vote for an embedding implementation, others may put more. >> I would take that as you oppose the visible filename.lyxdir idea. I >> remember you said that before though. > > Yes, for the casual user I said that and still think so. But this also > demonstrates that you didn't take enough attention to Richard's > argumentation. One of the point was that this directory would be by default > hidden in the temp directory. Only the advanced user will know that this > .lyz file is really a zip archive and will then be able to work directly > with it by unzipping it inline if he wants to. No. If this is the case, Richard should have put it to the wiki. Because of the use of file + dir structure, the only way to hide this dir is to zip it. What does this mean? This means some more 'mode' a user has to learn. 1. unbundled: .lyx is plain text. 2. unbundled, compressed: External files kept external. Only zip filename.lyx?. 3. bundled, normal user. filename.lyx is a zip file. External files are invisible. 4. bundled, advanced user, filename.lyx is plain text, filename.lyxdir is visible. 5. bundled, advanced user, compressed?? 6. bundled, normal user, compressed?? Richard also mentioned something like a 'wrapped' mode and I do not know where to put them in the picture. We have decided to postpone this feature so we should stop here. We can resume this discussion after 1.6.0 is released. However, at that time, I hope you will have some clear understanding of what exactly you are offering. Cheers, Bo
