Old datatype reference pages?

[jamescummings]

Should we be removing the old datatype reference pages?

e.g. we have a page for
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-data.pointer.html
even though they are all now
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-teidata.pointer.html

This doubles the number of datatype pages at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/REF-MACROS.html.

i.e. should we just not generate these pages, or deprecate these datatypes?

[lb42]

Deprecation seems appropriate. There may be ODDs in the wild which still reference the old datatypes.

[jamescummings]

Yes, that was what I was wondering about. If we have the pages as is, it looks messy and people might use them. If we just don't have the pages, then there is undocumented magic that these datatypes might still work in your odd. If we deprecate them properly then at least a red warning comes up on the page.

So +1 for deprecation.

[ebeshero]

Subgroup at f2f agrees with deprecation.

[sydb]

Assigned to SB to check that @validUntil works properly on <macroSpec> and then make ’em deprecated 2 yrs hence.

[sydb]

Deprecation was added Fri 2016-05-06 in commit 56125fa.