Re: Project bloat report

On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 05:54:01PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 04:38:07PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 05:01:35PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > What about associated @-commands, such as @xml, @ifxml..., or @inlinefmt
> > > argument name?  My view is that they should be removed too, it is
> > > possible to use @ifcommanddefined if needed.
> > 
> > @ifxml may be used in a few manuals.  I found it was used in the Gawk
> > documentation, as well as in the Texinfo manual.  It's used if the
> > document author has gone through and added conditional blocks for
> > every output format that texi2any supports.
> > 
> > Could we mark these commands as deprecated and never output @ifxml blocks
> > and always output @ifnotxml blocks, likewise for @xml and inline conditionals?
> 
> Ok.  We should probably keep them as you propose for a few releases.
> But I also think that we should say that they could be removed in later
> releases, otherwise they will remain until the end of time.

That's ok with me.