[tei-council] Options for freezing and/or archiving Lite

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Sun Aug 12 14:32:03 EDT 2012


I think Martin has summarized the options well ...

On 8/12/12 12:43 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 10/08/12 00:30, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> 2. Freezing (no more development, but Lite continues to be built and
>> tested as part of the build process, and remains in trunk and in the
>> release package):
>>
>> 	Lite would be compiled and released with every release. It's not clear
>> whether it would be hard-linked to the P5 version in force at the time
>> of the freeze or not; there are advantages and disadvantages each way.
>> Bugs emerging out of testing would be fixed, but no other development
>> would take place, no matter how apparently attractive the suggestions
>> might be.
>
>
> I think we did agree that Lite will be hard-linked to the P5 version
> current at its time of freezing. This would be my preferred option.

... and this option sounds the best to me.  Can someone remind us what 
the disadvantages are to tying Lite to the latest P5?


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