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[Joseph Wright]

On 21/10/2019 22:40, Karl Berry wrote:
>      (For reference, http://tug.org/svn/pdftex/branches/stable/doc/ rather
>      than the obvious http://tug.org/svn/pdftex/trunk/doc.)
> 
> Someday maybe I will move pdftex trunk back to trunk. But whenever I am
> on the verge of doing so, I think of all the existing checkouts that
> would have to be changed, and end up doing nothing.

Do you have an idea of the number of people actively using them?

>      Also, are the older (1.30) \pdfoptionpdf... names still useful?
> 
> I am not inclined to remove them just for cleanup and gratuitiously
> break whatever old stuff may be using it, e.g., as Reinhard found. Yes,
> they make it more annoying to search the sources, but ... -k

Fair enough: was only a passing thought. (I think the TL tree is OK as 
it's largely defensive code. It's of course individual docs that are 
harder.)

Joseph