[tei-council] Unused parts of TEI P5 source

[Martin Holmes]

 > do I hear any votes for zapping from Sourceforge entirely? in these days
 > of distributed version control, the practice of keeping things around 
"just in case",
 > or commenting out references, is a bit unnecessary.

Let's not. Years down the road it might be difficult to figure out what 
revision they were last present in.

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-11-02 08:13 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 2 Nov 2011, at 15:04, Lou Burnard wrote:
>
>> What a strange practice. Why not grep the file guidelines-en.xml ?
>>
> thats just the file names…
>
>> Certainly we should keep them around. It can only be a matter of time
>> before someone starts demanding the return of one or other of them (I'm
>> looking at e.g. watermarks)
>
> they are of course in the Vault. eg
> http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5/1.9.0/xml/tei/odd/Source/Specs/tr.xml
>
> do I hear any votes for zapping from Sourceforge entirely? in these days
> of distributed version control, the practice of keeping things around "just in case",
> or commenting out references, is a bit unnecessary.

Let's not. Years down the road it might be difficult to figure out what 
revision they were last present in.

>
>> The TEI.xxx.xml ones will be needed when we decide to forget this XML
>> nonsense and go back to good old SGML dtds of course.
>
> I'm not so sure.  We do still generate DTDs, and I think we just bypassed
> the need for these creatures.  Who knows, it was so long ago.
>
> besides, the wench is dead. etc.
>
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