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

[Janosch Machowinski]

The build server will fail for sure...
Greetings
     Janosch

Am 22.07.2015 um 10:18 schrieb 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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