Follow-up Comment #26, bug #66392 (group groff): At 2025-02-03T11:24:56-0500, Dave wrote: > Follow-up Comment #24, bug #66392 (group groff): > > [comment #23 comment #23:] >> I'm trying to get 1.24.0 toward a release and I am not anxious to >> mediate a dispute between advocates of these three positions, > > In terms of what's least disruptive for an imminent release, perhaps > simplest is to roll back the change making hyphenation language > per-environment.
That is what I will have to do, I reckon, since no one has even ventured
that they perceive a problem in comment #0 of bug #66387.
I'm surprised. Maybe I'd better get used to that.
(That said, I'll hazard an assumption that making the hyphenation mode
also global rather than an environmental property would be even more
discomfiting. How's my guess this time? ;-) )
> * As far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong), this doesn't disrupt
> any of the new functionality targeted for 1.24. Nothing is listed as
> depending on bug #66387.
No, blissfully, it's not tangled up with device extension commands or
character representation. Or UTF-16 Type 1 font support, etc.
> * It doesn't regress anything, since this has been the status quo for
> a very long time, probably since .hla was introduced.
That's my understanding.
> * It allows the present bug (altering macro packages to accommodate
> the change) to be postponed until after a release. So it actually
> reduces the 1.24 workload.
>
> When the change is re-implemented for 1.25, it can be done in tandem
> with the larger discussion that has sprung up here about how best to
> populate new environments. And that can be done early in the release
> cycle, to give any issues more time to shake out before a release.
At 2025-02-03T12:14:39-0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #25, bug #66392 (group groff):
>
> [comment #24 comment #24:]
>> In terms of what's least disruptive for an imminent release, perhaps
>> simplest is to roll back the change making hyphenation language
>> per-environment.
>
> I'm in complete agreement with Dave. Roll back the change and have a
> good chinwag about environment switching after 1.24. The minutiae of
> Branden's comments are veering dangerously close to angels on the head
> of pin--if you catch my drift, Mr. Frodo.
I don't, sorry to say. What aspect of the issue strikes you as sweating
an impractical problem?
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