[tei-council] removing and renaming XML files

[stuart yeates]

On 21/04/12 02:18, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Better to break the links and fix them, I think, since we're winding up
> to a "major" release, and if the tei_ prefix in anchors is included in
> it, lots of existing links will break anyway.

Only the "DI" part is included in the anchors (or the ones I checked, 
anyway).

I don't believe that this will break any links and should not be 
supported / should be actively rolled back if it is later found to be 
breaking them.

> But this really ought to be a policy issue. Under what circumstances is
> it acceptable to break existing links to a) pages in the Guidelines, and
> b) anchors on pages? And when we do break them with a new release, what
> are our obligations in terms of supporting the old links?

I'd support not deliberately breaking links until P6.

cheers
stuart