On 12/10/2012 04:59 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> - From my point as the author of a layout I cannot know what a >> version of the document class a user might have installed. So what >> should I do, if the layout works only with modernCV 1.0, but fails >> with 0.9 and the recent version 1.2? - I have update the layout to >> work with the latest version. >> > Long-term, as I said, we should make layouts version-aware somehow, at > least in so far as we try to detect version during configuration and > enable or disable layouts depending upon which versions we detect. I > can even imagine putting conditional code into layouts themselves.
In that scenario we could use lyx2lyx machinery to convert/revert between layout versions. The code would use a hook to call lyx2lyx if the layout used in the document had a different version from the available system or local layout. This should be the easiest part. :-) -- José Matos
