On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > >> To conclude, note that even if the patch may seem large, it is really > >> simple and not invasive, such that it can be safely backported to branch. > >> > > What's the policy as regards preference changes? We don't need to add this > > to prefs2prefs, or increase the preferences format, since it's not a > > "change" in that sense. But do we allow changes to the preferences file in > > stable versions? > > we did this already in the past iirc.
Yes, and it is not harmful. In order to see a problem you should use a previous version of LyX with the same user dir and you should have changed and saved preferences about the thing. Then, even in this case, you only get a warning about an unrecognized tag. > i would be more careful about the > systemcall part, it looks quite invasive and in very sensitive area of code. Uh? What do you mean? -- Enrico
