Am 28.01.2016 um 17:31 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
How can the issue be solved if a minimum version is required? I'm
guessing the old version will never work.
Should the tests assume that the developer running the tests has the
newest version of the LaTeX files needed to run the tests?
Yes, definitly. The problem with the article classes is that the user
MUST use the newest version or he cannot commit his article. So if LyX
is not supporting the latest class version, LyX can no longer easily be
used to write an article submission.
Therefore our lyx2lyx policy makes troubles: The user cannot wait a year
until we released a new LyX where we support new class versions. In my
opinion we must break our fileformat rule for scientific articles and be
able to release a new layout file with the next LyX maintenance release.
Of course the new layout won't be compatible with the old one but nobody
needs the old one since it can no longer be used for submissions. We
could add lyx2lyx code for the conversion to the same fileformat so that
the fileformat doesn't need to be changed.
regards Uwe
