[tex-live] Make the extensions for formats different for each engine.

[Gerben Wierda]

On Apr 15, 2004, at 22:31, Hans Hagen wrote:

>> I'd prefer just different extensions...
>
> I suppose that both could work given the right pattern in the cnf 
> file? The suffix solution is ok if we force new engines to use a new 
> suffix.

There is this XeTeX system (which is in beta and integrates all sorts 
of font stuff with TeX) which already uses .xfmt as an extension.
And of course there is the precedent of E-TeX and .efmt versus TeX and 
.fmt

G