On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:21:51PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> I don't see a reason why the default values should be changed. > Dekel> When you create a table in 1.3.0, will every cell be a > Dekel> multicolumn by default ? > > No, but maybe for some reason, we'll decide that valignment is > "center". > > Or let's say we should document the file format, along with the > default values, so that if we decide to change the defaults, we'll > have to include the new value always in the lyx file. > > Dekel> You can tell what where the default value according to the > Dekel> format number. > > Yes, but Juergen wants to avoid spaghetti code in some time. See how > our reading of old lyx files has become ugly.
I believe Dekel made this suggestion as well:
I think all backwards compatibility code should get moved to
small binaries (or perl or python scripts) in $LIBDIR/compat/
named {old_num}_to_{new_num}, and then LyX can just focus on
supporting the latest format.
---Kayvan
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