[Rock-dev] autoproj: Renaming Headers after they where installed

[Martin Zenzes]

Hi folks,

just wanna ask for your opinion on how to do renames of C/C++ headers 
which are to be installed into "$prefix/include/...". In the moment, the 
old installed file is kept in the install folder, while the new one is 
installed as well.

This leads to consumers code silently still working, by including the 
old header and ignoring the new one.

Yes, this is an API-Change and should be avoided. But as long as the new 
scheme improves readability, we can fix trivial filename changes pretty 
fast. Anyways, is there some well trodden procedure? What comes in my 
mind is:

- install a file into the old header-name and add a C++ "#error", with 
proper instructions what to do.
- removing the whole install folder once everywhere

Other ideas?

Martin

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