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

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 13 Dec 2012, at 16:45, Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:
> A) What do we do about files in http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/DTD/ ? 
> (which is the same except whitespace for content originally at 
> http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/ and now at 
> http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P4/xml/schema/dtd/ ) Do we leave these files 
> there so they can be directly found as targets of the P4 DTD (typically 
> invoked as http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/DTD/tei2.dtd), or do we put 
> in permanent redirects to the Vault location?
permanent redirects, I'd say
> 
> 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 .

oh lord. that sounds like a horrible mess. I dont have a simple answer
> 
> 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)?
I'd say yes

> 
> 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'm agreeing with Kevin
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