[tei-council] Unused parts of TEI P5 source

[Martin Holmes]

I was thinking as a TEI user -- someone, for instance, that has been 
happily using one of tr or trans in a customization, and then one day 
needs to refresh their schema and discovers that it's disappeared.

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-11-02 09:40 AM, Piotr Bański wrote:
> But, Martin, are you saying this as a TEI user, or as a TEI historian?
>
> How often do you need to trace the development of content models between
> TEI releases?
>
> Best,
>
>    Piotr
>
> On 02/11/11 17:35, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11-11-02 09:23 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 Nov 2011, at 16:09, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> eh? is that a vote for keeping in SF or not? its easy to look
>>> at Vault and see when they last appeared.
>>
>> It was a vote to keep, especially given that we haven't seen the
>> reaction of the community to the decision to move them.
>>
>> If I'm a regular user looking at the Vault, this is what I see:
>>
>> <http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/>
>>
>> I don't see an easy way to navigate to previous versions of P5, or to
>> discover what might or might not be in them. It would actually be easier
>> to grep the SVN log than to find this info in the Vault, unless I'm
>> missing a finding aid for the Vault.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
>
>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)