Re: version control

[Damien Diederen <diederen swing be>]

Hello !

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:28:29PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
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> 1. Obviously if I am looking at a particular version then I am looking
> at just that version.  If I send it to a friend I want just that
> version sent -- no hidden stuff like MS Word.

Please, please, please. If you have to send a document to a friend, 
please send it in an *interchange* format, not in the *save* format 
or your word processor, which is certainly not optimized for 
distribution.  I'm not more pleased receiving a StarOffice document 
than a M$ '.doc'.  

Of course, this comment doesn't apply if your friend has to *edit* 
the document with the same software as yours. This being said, I am 
wondering what could be a suitable interchange format : RTF doesn't 
seem to be too extensible, and HTML is not really designed to be 
imported in word processors. Maybe a new XML interchange format could 
be crafted by the GNOME and KDE camps if none is available ? So you 
could easily 'export' (or even 'send by mail' *cough*) version 1.7 of 
'your-document.efs'.

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Cu,
Damien.

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Damien Diederen
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