[tei-council] oxygen-tei package

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 19 12:00:24 EDT 2014


On 19 Sep 2014, at 16:55, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>>>> The last item on the list made the build during release fail (to my knowledge). I wonder whether this part is (or: can be) maintained by the Council or whether it needs to be maintained by the oxygen people?
>>> the latter, because it all depends on interaction with the main oxygen code base. we can’t diverge from them.
>> Ok, then we treat this part as a black box and simply call oxygen support when our build fails :)
> 
> Call me old-fashioned, but this makes all sorts of alarm bells ring in 
> my head. Our build process should not be be dependent on a commercial 
> product, however wonderful!

you’re being paranoid :-}

the job under discussion is to build an add-on to commercial oxygen. to do that
it, it uses commercial oxygen in the build.  We don’t have a choice.

did you realise the Stylesheets build depends on oxygen to make doc files?
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