[tei-council] next release

[Lou Burnard]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>>  It recommends deprecation as a strategy to get around interim small 
>> minor breakage.  So, if say we want to change @foo's datatype (in a 
>> way that breaks existing instances) then we introduce @bar with that 
>> datatype and note that @foo is now deprecated.  Part of the major 
>> revision for P6 in a few years then, one must assume, will be the 
>> removal of all the deprecated elements/attributes/classes?
> if we are going to record deprecation, then we had better extend the ODD
> language now to support that :-} In practice, we can use probably use 
> @usage for that
> on <elementSpec> and possibly <attDef>, but it may be safer to add 
> something new.
> 

I would deprecate such practice.

:-)