[tex-hyphen] versioning hyphenation patterns

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Mojca, have you ever thought about pattern versions?  One of the
> > very first emails to the tex-hyphen mailing list discusses that.
> > Since luatex will support selection of patterns as a run-time
> > operation (at least this is what I remember), this might become an
> > issue.
>
> At the very beginnig Karl said something like:
> - please no pattern version in the name

Hmm.  In german-x, we'll have the following:

  dehypht-x.tex
  dehypht-x-2008-06-15.tex

The former loads the latter, thus for the end user it's always
`dehypht-x.tex'.  All those files are generated automatically by the
project's Makefile.

> Do you have any suggestion about how to use the versioned files?

No.  First, we need a TeX system which supports hyphenation pattern
selection at run-time.

> One particular idea that comes to my mind would be the following:
> [...]

This is quite a similar solution.


    Werner