[tei-council] outstanding questions regarding P4 deprecation in the Vault

[Lou Burnard]

On 13/12/12 16:45, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>
> A) What do we do about files in http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/DTD/ ?
shd be permanent redirects to the Vault
> B) What do we do about
> http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/Lite/DTD/ ? The URL that
> is used for the P4 TEI Lite DTD in oXygen and no doubt elsewhere points
> to http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD/teixlite.dtd , which in turn redirects
> to http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/Lite/DTD/teixlite.dtd .
Not sure I understand the question. The p4 teilite dtd is not supported 
anymore, is it? so these should be in the vault too.

>
> C) The link at http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/ for P4 now points to the
> Vault. Any objections to removing mention of P4 from this page entirely
> (since it's no longer supported)?

No strong objection, but it might be kind to add a sentence to the 
effect that older versions of the Guidelines (P1, P32, P3, and P4) are 
all available from the Vault.

>
> D) James has suggested adding a note at the top of
> http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P4/doc/html/index.html – or to all HTML files
> – noting that P4 is no longer supported. Kevin notes that we didn't
> attempt to do this with P1, P2, and P3 as far as I know, and I don't
> think it's worth the effort for P4. People who are using it already know
> it's not current, and the fact that 'Vault/' is now in the URL should
> clue them in if they've somehow had their head in the ground for the
> past five years.

I can understand the desire to add warning messages or a popup that says 
"Warning ! You are using a superannuated version of the TEI Guidelines! 
Don't blame us if everything goes wrong! "  but I share your feeling 
that it's probably unnecessary.