On 03/27/2016 01:13 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 27/03/2016 19:01, Richard Heck a écrit : >> Yes, that would be possible. Could this be done at program >> configuration? Don't we set up some version.h file at that time into >> which this could go? I don't really feel like parsing the output from >> "lyx2lyx -l" at runtime, though it could presumably be done, and we >> could have some new option that made more easily parsed output. > > Either we ask lyx2lyx for the information, or we put it in some text > file that is read by lyx2lyx and by LyX itself. > > This is not 2.2.0 work, IMO. But something should be done to avoid > people being too surprised. Personnally, I am not sure that I want to > have my directories polluted everytime I edit an old file.
We do use the backup directory if it exists. For now, then, let's just change the naming scheme so people have some better idea what these files are. OK? Richard
