[Scribus] Success: compile Mac/Aqua from CVS without patches

[Craig Bradney]

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:20, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:11 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > If we had said we think you should use it for production work, then these
> > practical problems would exist, but we didnt. We will not be making an
> > option to save back into 1.2 format.. where would all your cross page
> > items, pdf 1.5/1.6 support options, etc etc etc go in the 1.2 format?
>
> Additionally, even if an attempt was made to support the old format,
> it'd still be unsafe to rely on. The nature of 1.3 is that it changes
> fairly quickly and cannot be depended upon to be in a usable,
> non-document-eating state at all times. A mangled document "saved down"
> to 1.2 format is still mangled.
>
> That's not to say that 1.3 will eat your files ... just that it's
> possible it *might* if there's some nasty bug or a side-effect from some
> in progress work.
>
> There's also the small matter that "1.3cvs format" on day n may not be
> the same as "1.3cvs format" on day n+1.

Thats also true, we will be rewriting the format reader and writer code (well, 
Riku will) to save some memory on loading and saving and this format might 
end up being different slightly. Also, once we get the new 1.3 format in, it 
wil be completely different anyway.

Craig
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