Continuous development

TEI Publisher comes with a central application manager, Jinks, which manages all profiles and the applications generated from it.

Creation of an application is no longer a one-time generative step, but it can be approached iteratively: new features may be added or removed, configuration for the existing ones modified. The same user interface which allowed us to select, pre-configure and generate our application, can be used to reconfigure and regenerate it at any later point.

As new profiles are added to the public library - or new versions are released for the existing ones - this application manager can take care of updating profiles and their dependencies used in custom applications under its control. Updates can largely be carried out automatically with the number of necessary manual interventions reduced to a minimum and most updates applied with a single click. Gone are the days when users had to read through update instructions to manually migrate to a new version of TEI Publisher.