[tex-hyphen] old pattern files, unused and used

[Mojca Miklavec]

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