On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Derek Feichtinger wrote:

> Hi Chuck
>
> On 21.02.2017 00:54, Charles C. Berry wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Derek Feichtinger wrote:
>> 
>>> When org-export-babel-evaluate is set to nil, I see a different behavior 
>>> now as compared to earlier versions of org.
>> 
>> Indeed.
>> 
>> It is now *obsolete* and its behavior has intentionally been changed as 
>> noted here:
>>


> So, I still feel that this is a very much needed functionality that has been 
> lost on the way.

Nothing is lost here.

Reread the part of my post that you deleted in your reply:

: | ...  Users
: | who wish to avoid evaluating code on export should use the header
: | argument ‘:eval never-export’.
: |

which is how to do what you want.

And maybe review how to set header args buffer wide or system-wide.

HTH,

Chuck