[tei-council] oxygen-tei package

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 19 12:03:57 EDT 2014


On 19/09/14 17:00, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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 :-}
I prefer to say "principled", but "paranoid" works too...
> 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.

I didnt say we shouldn't build the add-on. I just said it probly 
shouldnt be part of the P5 build.
>
> did you realise the Stylesheets build depends on oxygen to make doc files?

What doc files? OK, only joshing. But anyway, that's a different issue. 
The doc could presumably be built using any other system.



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