Re: File format robustness

2002-05-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:36:43PM +0100, Jos? Ab?lio Oliveira Matos wrote: > I would like to work to attain such goal but you should notice that the > internal structure of such a block can change between versions so your plan > isn't bullet proof. Yes, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Re: File format robustness

2002-05-28 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:43, Jules Bean wrote: > OK. Well, seeing the problems being debated in that thread, I have a > proposal to make. > > I can't over-emphasise how important the bitrot thing is: it really > *must* be possible to read 3,5,7, 10 year old documents in LyX. > Consider that in

RE: File format robustness

2002-05-28 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 28-May-2002 Jules Bean wrote: > Then an old version of LyX can attempt to load a new version's docs > ('Newer version detected, attempting to load anyway\n Unknown block > type 'foo' ignored'), and, *most* of the time, a new version of the > file format will just be a 'superset' of the old ve