On Sunday, August 7, 2016 8:00:53 PM WEST Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I wrote that after what I recall being a discussion in a sub-thread. I > wonder now if I should have made a separate discussion on the list, so > I'm doing that now. Do others agree with the above paragraph? I have not > actually authored many file format changes myself, so perhaps my > intuition is off here. > > Also, I wonder if updating the file format is annoying to document > maintainers because they sometimes will need to compile the latest > version of master in order to work on the documentation. > > Please feel free to edit the above paragraph in Development.lyx. > > Scott
I think that we can have a compromise if we ask developers to test the result of the lyx2lyx patches on the lyx documents. If we assume that we are creating format N then it would be something like: 1) create a temporary directory and copy all the lyx documentation to there; 2) update all documents there to format N-1; 3) update all documents to format N and compare the differences with format N-1, noticing if there are any anomalies. Eventually this can be automated and placed as a target for our build system(s). Last month I did that for the existing format changes for the development branch. What do you think? Regards, -- José Abílio
