reutenauer
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6 years ago As Gandhi probably didn’t say, “I think it would be a good idea”. I’ve always wished for a somewhat flatter structure that is easier to use. I don’t particular care about CTAN, though. Do we also want to produce a .tds.zip?
Looking at the contents of /hyph-utf8, one level in the tree structure can obviously be omitted: the third one where there is exactly one element in each branch, a directory called hyph-utf8. I would be really glad to see that one disappear, it has been irritating me for a very long time. Other than that, it’s not really clear how much we can gain; but maybe some files could be dropped from doc and the corresponding source location; the Hungarian document is really specific to OpenOffice, and the Bulgarian one almost doesn’t mention hyphenation at all. The email about Sanskrit is not very useful either.
Going back to the top level, I think we can get rid of all of /data except for /data/language-codes/tex-languages.txt (that I need to update), and all of /old except for /old/other, that is not characterised by being old (it’s other languages for which you found hyphenation patterns elsewhere). I think we can make a branch with the current content, and then actually remove all those files from the repository. What do you think?
I’ll look for more places to clean up. I’m not very happy with what’s happening in /collaboration either, for example.
The TDS structure is suboptimal for someone who wants to simply brows the files. We should make some directory structure that's easier to browse.