[tei-council] maybe a consideration for next utilities release?

[Lou Burnard]

On 28/10/12 10:41, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2012, at 10:06, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I realise this is a minority interest, but still and all, I thought I
>> might mention that to use the local installed version of p5subset.xml
>> rather than sit and wait for the network with the following utilities I
>> have to ...
>>
>> a) odd2nuodd : add parameter P5=/usr/local/whatever
>>
>> b) roma : add command line option --localsource=/usr/local/whatever
>>
>> c) oddbyexample : add parameter tei=/usr/local/whatever
>>
>> would a bit of consistency be too much to ask?
>
> now all of them use the parameter called "defaultSource". Roma's
> --localsource I can't so easily change.
>
> can I remind everyone with a copy of emacs that these bits of XSL
> are not my private fiefdom and that all of you can fix them too? :-}
> --
> S

Well I hesitate to blunder in and mess with them without your permission 
-- but if I did, I'd probably make them all say "localsource" rather 
than "defaultsource"

If you say "defaultsource" that implies there's some other kind of 
source one might specify to override it, which sfaik there isn't