On Wednesday 26 March 2003 09:11, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>> Seems that python is required by lyx2lyx : > >> > >> That is weird as you don't need any convertion for files made with > >> 1.3.0 only for older. > > Maybe the conversion program is called even for > minor file format changes ?
There is no file format change, be it major or minor. That I can assure you. :-) [...] > I just don't like to install python only for the sake of a > file format upgrade which worked fine alone since 0.12. In 1.4 this will go back to 0.10 and possibly before. As said before if lyx wrote it lyx should read it. :-) > IMHO, the old upgrade capability *should* works as before > ./configure > make > make install > lyx <my_file.lyx> > without failure when coming from the previous recent release > (means that 1.3 should read 1.2, I'm not asking for full ascending > compatibility back to 0.12: lyx2lyx *is* an improvement for those who > need it). If you ever saw the code for that it was a *nightmare*, really. The next question is where do you stop. > I'm glad with perl, maybe I'm the only one around without python :-) You don't know what you are missing. ;-) -- José Abílio
