Il 29/04/2011 06:09, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Richard Heck<rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
What is wrong with such an approach ?
The data loss thingy: it's very dangerous and naive users (but even
developers!) could suffer.
As far as the user is notified, I can't see a real problem here (you
might have an option in the "Advanced Mode" suggested in some other
thread enabling/disabling this, if it really scares you). The actual
burden is when you suggest to use LyX, then you write a first (nearly)
text-only draft with the use of a few heading styles, send it to your
colleagues, and they can't interoperate because of their older
(distribution) version (and guess what's their feeling about this new
tool they didn't know ?). Surely the perfect interaction model advocates
for pre-agreeing on a common version to work with, however sometimes one
has simply far better and more urgent things to do, rather than
downloading the latest lyx sources and compile-time dependencies and
compile it from scratch.
This just happened to me 1 week ago for writing a paper, with colleagues
working with Mac and Win: guess what has been the resolution ? I
couldn't use LyX anymore, and we all worked with LaTeX.
I wish LyX could try to do its best to load a document, and one
possibility that I can see when the fileformat is too new, is the one to
simply ignore those "tags/commands/options" which are not understood,
whilst parsing and digesting those ones which are indeed understood (I'm
referring to the same type of fileformat, of course, like we used to
have in the last releases -- I know XML is another story).
T.
