Guenter Milde wrote: > There was well based objection to the proposal of a new version-layout by > Georg in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/161202 from > 28 March: > > Before discussing the case of incompatible versions with the same name > further, I'd like to see an example where we would really need to > backport a layout file for the new version to the stable branch, and > where the existing mechanism for new styles does not work.
That objection was about the urgency of backporting a new layout file to the stable branch. It was not about versioned layouts for incompatible changes in .cls files in master. Georg