Bo Peng wrote: >> Several developers have told you that this isn't going to get fixed >> before LyX 1.4 is released. > > I perfectly understand this. > >> They've explained why they think that a file format change would be a >> bad idea at this stage. > > This is also fine, and I do understand the technical difficulties. > That is why I was no long urging a file format change, rather > proposing GUI enhancements for compressed lyx format. > >> Given that LyX has existed now for ten years and nobody has ever >> reported this problem before, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say, >> "later". > > Ask yourself if you ever need to email lyx files around several years > ago, and if you are happy to grep '..' every .lyx file you receive > now. > > I apologize if I have been pushing or annoying but Andre' was saying > that he is against fixing this problem at all.
No, that's not what he said. He said that "this is not a LyX problem, so it should not be fixed in LyX." He's right. Take this to the developers of XCMail or drop XCMail and use a mail client that works. Respectfully, -- Angus
