[tei-council] directory layout of a TEI distribution

[Christian Wittern]

Christian Wittern <wittern at kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

>>>Hmm.  Now the exemplars are scattered all over the place, which will
>>>make it difficult to get a coherent view of them...
>>>
>> but thats inevitable, surely? the runtime files, the documentation (two
>> forms),
>> and the source don't belong in the same tree, once you start down the
>> Linux-like route.
>>
>>> Honestly, I would
>>>see them as part of the documentation (documenting different aspects)
>>>and thus would prefer to see them in one tree under doc/tei/examplars.
>>>  
>>>
>> but they are also runtime files (schemas). which I currently
>> put under schema/relaxng/p5, but now I see that it does not
>> seem quite right
>>
>> its difficult to reconcile the "debian package" view, which
>> has no problem with all the files in one directory, because the
>> package metadata discriminates, and the "human" view
>> which wants to put files in lots of small directories so that they
>> can be more easily moved around

Well yes, now that I have thought of this a bit more, I think a way
out of this would be to have a HTML page for each exemplar that
documents its use and links to the relevant files for the inspection
of the user.  What do you think, Sebastian?

Christian


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