Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 27.10.2015 um 20:32 schrieb Georg Baum: > >> I think LyX would be perfectly suitable for frequent updates in theory, >> and I'd like to see those as well one day. For example, all those small >> new features like the one we are discussing in this thread, would not >> need to wait for any big release. If you look how other projects work >> which use "Continous Delivery" > > This is what i meant. but how could this be possible as long as the > fileformat is frozen for 1 to 2 years?
For the simple case of adding a new style to an existing layout file we already have a mechanism that allows us to do such changes without increasing the file format number (see section 2.4 of Development.lyx). Apart from that the answer is "it won't be possible" => the file format can not be frozen for 1-2 years. I have some vague ideas how this could be handled (including a bit of forward compatibility), but this will definitely not be trivial, and will need a lot of discussion if we decide to move towards continous delivery. > Having multiple layout files does not help since one might find a bug in > a layout file that would require a lyx2lyx conversion. Yes. And there are many other possible reasons for increasing the file format number. Georg
