[tei-council] Fwd: Re: Lite and/or _Lite?

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Wed Jul 25 20:17:52 EDT 2012


Just like you, I am trying to clarify things.  I bring it up hoping that 
someone will say, "Ah, I made that change shortly after Ann Arbor" or 
something like that.  Then I can perhaps add a note in the minutes so 
that future historians of the TEI can make sense of them.

On 7/25/12 6:03 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] Lite and/or _Lite?
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:03:40 +0100
> From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
> To: Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>
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> The minutes from Ann Arbor could be mistaken, or someone may have been
> mistaken in asserting that we were actually still using teilite rather
> than tei_lite . Does it matter? The current state of affairs is what we
> all agreed we wanted!
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> I dont know when we started generating from tei_lite, but I think
> Sebastian is right in suggesting it was well before the AA meeting.
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> On 25/07/12 22:58, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> So are you saying that someone has changed what we are generating in
>> Jenkins since Ann Arbor?  That is, what was stated in Ann Arbor is no
>> longer true?
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>> On 7/25/2012 5:32 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> Yes, as my second mail points out, we are indeed currently generating
>>> from the "inclusion" version. Which is what the minutes say we agreed
>>> (inter alia) to do.
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>>> On 25/07/12 22:26, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>>> Hmm, according to:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm50.xml#body.1_div.1_div.2_div.2
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>>>> we are using the exclusion version (teilite.odd) to generate schemas.
>>>> That could be an error in the minutes, or someone may have misspoken.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/25/2012 5:13 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>>> I should also add that the Makefile in Exemplars (and presumably
>>>>> therefore also Mr Jinks) only builds the tei_lite version. As it
>>>>> should.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25/07/12 22:10, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>>>> I'm finally getting round to the action placed on me at last Council
>>>>>> meeting concerning the ever popular "TEI Lite" document, and would
>>>>>> appreciate confirmation that I'm about to do the right thing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are still two versions of this ODD in the svn repository under
>>>>>> Exemplars: one (called tei_lite.odd) is defined by inclusion; the
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> (called teilite.odd) is defined by exclusion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm pretty sure we agreed that we would henceforth maintain this
>>>>>> document only in the "inclusion" form, if only so that we don't
>>>>>> have to
>>>>>> keep fixing it every time some new element is added to the Guidelines
>>>>>> (which happens surprisingly often). But I'd like confirmation on that
>>>>>> before zapping teilite.odd or moving it to the "Deprecated-old-junk"
>>>>>> folder. Another possibility would of course be to maintain the two of
>>>>>> them (possibly with some slightly less obscure naming difference)
>>>>>> but I
>>>>>> am hoping we don't want to do that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Needless to say, the two versions have diverged slightly, with some
>>>>>> recent minor updates being made independently by different people to
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> two files, or to only one of them: I will in any case sort that out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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