Jose' Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 20:24, Angus Leeming wrote:
>>
>> The advantage of this scheme would be that each format change would
>> not require a new lyxconvert_xyz.py file, yet files generated with
>> recent cvs versions of LyX would continue to be upgraded.
> 
>   So the only problem is the number of files?

Yes.

>   The files now are self-contained, and easier to read.
> 
>   Also I don't understand what is the policy used to inflate the
>   file format number. :-)

Each change should increment the file format by 1. That that doesn't 
happen at the moment is largely because that means adding a new pair 
of files to lyx2lyx

>   Really, if we decide to increase the file format everytime that we
>   change the format I can understand that. Then I would gladly
>   change the transformation scheme to one file by release.

Seems sensible to me.

>   Am I so dumb that cann't understand the issue? :-)
>   A simple yes is not an answer. ;-)

You have understood what I was trying to say, despite my inability to 
express myself clearly, so you clearly aren't soooooooo dumb.

-- 
Angus

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