Thomas Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| 
| > I'm not sure anybody promised backward compatability... Anyway, it's not 
| > going to happen! Forward compatibility is Ok.
| 
| Beg to differ. Forward compatibility is a must and therefore not worth
| mentioning. Backward compatibility is nice to have, and I would assume
| it between stable minor revisions.

Only if you define what minor revisions are... I am not sure the
change from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5 is a minor revision (and please forget the
numbers). 1.1.4 to 1.1.4fix1 is a minor revision I guess.

| So far LyX *was* backward
| compatible, at least between the releases I have used (thats 1.0.1 to
| 1.1.5 IIRC).

This is only by coincidence.
And probably not quite true either.
 
| Remember the Word 97 thingy? 

What about it?

        Lgb

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