On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:46:57PM +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 28.06.2017 um 22:54 schrieb Gavin Smith: > >I would like to remove the code for the INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable > >in texi2any, as it doesn't seem to be used anywhere, and it seems to me > >to be unnecessary. > > Hmm... isn't that a rather big jump from the existing TODO item: > > > Use INLINE_INSERTCOPYING as the default for some formats?
We're not bound by that; that is just someone's opinion about what might be the best way to implement @insertcopying. > So until now it was considered to be turned on by default(!) for some output > formats, and instead you now want to remove it entirely, for all of them? I don't believe it was turned on by default for any output format. > Also it's currently a documented feature, and has been for at least 7 years > now: It is not really a feature, more a detail of the implementation. > So there's a considerable chance that some documents out there, or their > build environments, rely on it, and if they do, it'll be generating their > _legally_crucial_ copyright notice, no less! How can they be relying on it when the copying text is being inserted regardless?
