[tei-council] Identification of TEI releases

Peter Boot pboot at xs4all.nl
Tue Sep 2 11:30:04 EDT 2008


Hello all,

I had a small fight today that was caused, among other things, by 
differences between the versions of our schema files on the web and as 
delivered with oXygen (or rather of course my naively assuming that they 
would be the same).

Which made me wonder whether we shouldn't, in each of our output 
formats, clearly identify to which release of the TEI they belong? Each 
page in the Guidelines clearly says its version 1.1.0. But
- in the generated schema's there is only a date, not a version number, and
- Roma doesn't say anything about the version of the sources that it is 
using.

On SourceForge too, we might be a little more explicit about the TEI 
versions. (This is not meant to blame anybody, but just to suggest 
possible improvements, which I'd be willing to help put into practice.)
- There has been no announcement of versions 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 on 
SourceForge (at least, not in the news items: 
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=106328).
- in the download section, the 1.1 release notes contain, from the 
viewpoint of an interested outsider, just abracadabra 
(http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=106328&release_id=612190). 
Shouldn't there be a summary of the more important changes and bugfixes 
there? Even if only by referring to a message on TEI-L?
- also in the download section, there is a package tei release 1.0.1, 
while there is also a release 1.0.1 in the P5 package. It is not clear 
why there are two versions of 1.0.1. But worse, it may confuse people to 
whom the package 'tei' sounds more familiar than 'P5' into downloading 
an old version.

Peter


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