On 05/01/2011 06:59 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-05-01, Richard Heck wrote: > > ... [Resons for not up-and-downgrading on a regular basis] ... > >> People who want to collaborate with users of earlier versions (or use >> development versions for their own work, etc) should have the users of >> those earlier versions install their (newer) version of lyx2lyx. This >> isn't that hard to do, and it is by far the easiest solution. > Agreed. Could we make this easily available on the net and add the URL to > the error message like > > If this file is from a newer LyX version, try to download the > conversion script www.lyx.org/downloads/newest-stable/lyx2lyx.py and > place it in LYXDIR/scripts/. > > ? > > Also, documenting how to upgrade lyx2lyx on wiki.lyx.org is an option. > I'd go for the latter. And you really need to copy the entire lib/lyx2lyx/ directory, actually. There can be changes to support scripts that matter. (I had to do that when adding it to 1.6.10.)
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