On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 08:35:32PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/29/2015 06:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 29.11.2015 um 22:13 schrieb Richard Heck: > > > >> There is no reversion in layout2layout, so this is not possible. That's > >> why I suggested issuing a warning. > > > > That is bad. You see that my argumentation against backward > > compatibility is sadly true - it costs us much manpower. > > > > In fact we need to keep the LocalLayout at version 7 (as it was) > > because if we promise backwards compatibility then the user is free to > > export e.g. to LyX 1.5.x, right? > > No, I don't see it that way. The question isn't whether it's OK to use > local layout of higher versions. The question is whether we should > *routinely* update the format for a new release. If there was some > reason to do so---for example, you want to make use of some feature only > available with later formats---then that'd be differfent.
Seems like a good policy. We should have this (and the reasoning) in Development.lyx. Scott
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