Hi all,
I raised the issue of the Oxygen release with Alex on the relevant
oxygen-tei ticket, and had a response from him (below). Basically, he
has taken the current stable releases of P5 and the Stylesheets and
built the framework for Oxygen 17.1 already.
The rest of his message gives another instance of how cautious we have
to be here: it looks like changes to Oxygen 17.1 have percolated into
changes to the plugin/framework code, and that some of these may not be
compatible with older versions of Oxygen. This means we'll have to do
some testing before releasing our own updated version of the plugin, and
will probably have to change our "minimum version" information (which is
currently at 15.2) to a later version. I don't believe we should branch
the code; I don't want to be in the business of trying to maintain
multiple versions of our TEI plugin for different versions of Oxygen. I
believe this is the situation:
- Most TEI+Oxygen users have a version of Oxygen with the standard
framework and just use that. They'll see no change; if they update
Oxygen they'll get the latest stable framework, and if they don't,
they'll continue to have the one that was released with their Oxygen
version.
- A number of early-adopters with a specific reason to do so have
installed the plugin to stay up to date with our releases. As active
early-adopters, the majority of this group will presumably also be
updating their Oxygen, so they'll have no problem. Where one of that
group has an old version of Oxygen, they'll see that they're no longer
able to update their version of the plugin (after our next release of
it), but they can keep using the version they have until they update
Oxygen, so they're no worse off; they just can't keep moving forward
with us until they update Oxygen.
Is everyone happy with this, or is there an appetite for forking the
oxygen-tei project to support users of older versions of Oxygen?
Cheers,
Martin
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Subject: Re: [oxygen-tei] Synchronize with the upcoming Oxygen version
17.1 release (#5)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:02:04 -0700
From: AlexJitianu