From: Richard Heck [rgh...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:26 AM
>> Should we first check if the bst files are indeed different? If they are not >> different, then I don't think we need to >>bother the user with extra >> information/options. >This isn't a bad idea, but I'm not sure how to do it reliably and cross-platform. Is there an open source cross-platform SHA calculator or something similar? I could write a function that just runs through the files and compares lines. A custom function might be useful in this case so that we could, for example, see if the files are different disregarding comments. I wonder if an "exact file duplicate" function might be useful in LyX in other parts as well. For example, in Compare LyX files is it worth a check at the beginning that both files are the same? Most users probably use that tool knowing that their files are different and they want to see the differences; but I imagine there is the occasional user that just wants to know if the files are different and in that case a file check at the beginning might be faster. Scott
