[tei-council] directory layout again

[Christian Wittern]

James Cummings <James.Cummings at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.
>
>
That's what I meant when I said "going on with P5 forever". 

Of course, what this burns down to is that we can't introduce changes
that are not backward compatible.

> Or are we tied permanently to fixed P-Versions?

This is more of a marketing issue, I assume.


All the best,

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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