Hi Keita,

Ikumi Keita <[email protected]> writes:

> The reason why --jobname exists is written as a comment there in tex.el:
> ,----
> |     ;; Some lualatex versions before 0.71 would use "texput" as file
> |     ;; name if --jobname were not supplied
> `----
> This addition of --jobname argument was done in 2011 according to the
> commit log. 15 years ago. Maybe we can get rid of this now.
>
> To developers:
> Do you think that it is still dangerous to remove this compatibility
> argument for lualatex before 0.71?

I think we can make that change.  I suggest we add an entry to NEWS.org
about this change and user who need --jobname should customize
`TeX-engine-alist'.  WDYT?

Best, Arash

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