On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Should files like slhyph.tex be already moved to obsolete now, > together with a readme note? (Not with the intention to remove them > in future, but with intention to warn people that they should better > start using new files.) > > Hmm. First, my general theory is that anything moved to obsolete/ on > CTAN is not included in TL. There is no obsolete directory in TL and I > don't want one.
OK. > Second, I don't think it's necessary bad for pattern files that are > truly obsolete and not used in TL to only be on CTAN. I see no reason > for TL to carry around unused pattern files forever. That's CTAN's job :). > For greek we need the version 5 of patterns. I left them in > repository for now (needed for testing). > > Ok, but let's not include them in the hyph-utf8 package (= subdir), I > think. OK, I'll put them to some other location outside of hyph-utf8 (but leave them in repository, so that we can still test). > I have no idea whether we should also keep all the needed old > patterns (such as German) in our repository - that's definitely up > to you. > > I'm not sure what class of patterns German falls into. > > Do you mean the old patterns which are "needed" as your sources, or the > old patterns which you are not covering and are "needed" in TL, > independently of hyph-utf8? I probably meant dehyphn.tex which are needed in TL and loaded with loadhyph-de-*.tex But if there are no greek patterns, no german patterns should be there either. Mojca
