Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-07 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2004 10:39 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > > "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > John> wrote: > >> If you want to export to dvi and have an eps image, I seem to > >> remember that the

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> If you want to export to dvi and have an eps image, I seem to >> remember that the dvi will contain an hardcoded reference to a file >> that does not exist: h

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > > >> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file was created > >> by lyx or not. This means that every time you updat

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > If you want to export to dvi and have an eps image, I seem to remember > that the dvi will contain an hardcoded reference to a file that does > not exist: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244 Ugh :(( How horrible

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:30:23PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> Basically, use_tempdir is difficult to get perfectly right, >> especially if you do not know in advance what files will be >> produced by the converter. John

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> | On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: >>> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file was created by lyx or not. This mea

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: >> >>> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file >>> was created by lyx or not. This means that every time you update >>> the view, it will

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:30:23PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Basically, use_tempdir is difficult to get perfectly right, especially > if you do not know in advance what files will be produced by the > converter. Surely using the tempdir makes that easier - the contents of the directory

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: >> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file >> was created by lyx or not. This means that every time you update >> the view, it will ask wteher it should

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > >> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file was created >> by lyx or not. This means that every time you update the view, it will ask >> wteher it should overwrite the c

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:25:45PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > > If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file was created > > by lyx or not. This means that every time you update the view, it will ask > > wteher i

Re: [PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file was created > by lyx or not. This means that every time you update the view, it will ask > wteher it should overwrite the created files or not. If there are 100 I'd mu

[PATCH] Overwriting files without warning

2004-01-06 Thread Georg Baum
lyx does overwrite files without warning when converting between different formats. I consider this a grave bug. The user might expect this if he wants to export foo.ps from foo.lyx, but he cannot know that importing foo.a into bar.lyx might create foo.b, foo.tex (if the conversion path goes fr