[tex-hyphen] tamil and malayalam

[Karl Berry]

    Maybe TL 2010 would offer better timing since it would
    give us a bit more time to test.

I hope to be getting TL 2010 out earlier than previous years (I always
hope this).  Like, by summer.  Like, we start compiling in a couple
weeks.  FYI.

    One question: if language.dat says
        somelanguage:T1 loadhyph-xx.tex
    is it possible to access language name (somelanguage:T1) inside
    loadhyph-xx.tex somehow?

I don't know.  Maybe.  We'd have to look into precisely how language.dat
and language.def are parsed (by babel and etex.src respectively, I
think).

    - we have added 12 new patterns to the package (new version will be

How big are they?  Are we talking hundreds of new patterns, thousands,
..?  (Not sure how close we are to filling up pattern space.)

    PS: Karl, maybe the "old and new" part from description of mailing
    list may be removed 

Ok, done.