[tei-council] directory layout again

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Jul 6 19:21:42 EDT 2005


Yes! I like this idea *even better* !!

Lou (who neever wants to have to explain what "P" is short for again)


James Cummings wrote:

> Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>> I think the idea is that when P6 comes along, P5 becomes the 
>> "teiclassic" -- in other words, that the names are kind of symlinks.
>>
>> Another option would be to rename P5 as "teirenaissance" I suppose...
>
>
> I was envisioning that teiclassic (or tei-p4 or whatever) would always 
> only just contain TEI P4 (and previous P-versions?) and the from TEI 
> P5 onwards the tei package would just stay and get new numerical 
> version numbers. So tei 1.5 (or whatever) becomes tei 1.6, 1.6.1, etc. 
>  Installing earlier versions of the tei package is easy (as long as 
> they remain available).  So P6 never arrives, but the guidelines 
> continue to develop.  If in 5 years you want to install the P5 version 
> you just install an earlier version of the same package.
>
> Or are we tied permanently to fixed P-Versions?
>
> Just curious,
> -James
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