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

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Fri Aug 3 00:28:04 EDT 2012


For the record, I've added the note to the minutes.

On 7/25/12 8:17 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- 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>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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