Hi Dale,

Arches-HIP was originally a specific application *built on top of* Arches
version 3, which included definitions for 6 standard resource types, data
input forms and report templates for those resource types, as well as a set
of concepts (controlled vocabulary). With that in mind, check this out as
well: http://arches-hip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/#what-is
-arches-hip. In practice, arches-hip became the main entry point for
developers working with version 3, as a typical workflow was to install
arches and arches-hip, and then make new app from the arches-hip app
template and then customize this new app.

So Arches-HIP proper (especially the arches_hip python package) *is* only
for v3. There are many projects out there still using v3, but no, that
version is not officially supported at this time. I personally would love
to be able to make some upgrades to v3 to 1) move to Django 1.11 2) upgrade
Python and 3) (maybe) wrap arches-hip directly into the main codebase...
however, I have not been able to put any meaningful work toward that
effort, and don't know when I will be able to.

However, as you may have noticed, there is an "Arches-HIP" appendix in the
v4 documentation. I realize that is a little confusing, so I've just made
some changes to clarify things a little. What we have in v4 is an example
package (please see Next steps...
<http://arches.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation/#next-steps> at the
end of the installation docs) whose contents closely resembles the original
Arches-HIP resource types from version 3. That's what is documented in the
appendix, and it's intended to give users a full set of branches and
resource models right away.

I hope that clarifies things, and thanks for asking!

Adam

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Dale Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not clear on the difference between Arches and Arches HIP. Is HIP a
> package that extends the functionality of Arches, or is HIP a separate
> project?
>
> Looking here https://www.archesproject.org/documentation/, HIP is listed
> under the previous guides section as opposed to being listed under the
> current documentation, so I wonder if Arches version 4 is supposed to
> combine the functionality of Arches and HIP? Or has HIP been retired?
>
> HIP is built on Arches 3 - is this still maintained? The requirements list
> Python 2.7.6, stating that there are issues with later versions, but Python
> 2.7.6 has known security vulnerabilities, which I find concerning. Is it
> safe to use HIP? Is it possible install HIP in Arches V4?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
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