Re: Copying image files for HTML output

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 10:36 AM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@free.fr>, "bug-texinfo gnu" 
> <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Copying image files for HTML output
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:10:55PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I think that if the path does not starts with . or .. or is an absolute
> > path, it would make sense
> > 1) to search in include directories (I think that the current directory
> >   is always in front of of the search path)
> > 2) to check if the directories and image file exist in the destination
> >   directory and if not copy the file
> >
> > For point 2), there could be a customization variable to prevent the
> > copy, that would be off in the default case, but can be turned on for
> > the users who want backward compatibility or do something else by
> > themselves, for instance use links.
>
> I think it's a good idea but I think it should be left until after the
> next release to implement, as I suspect there will be enough issues from
> other changes to deal with.

Have no qualms about that.