Leftover junk

[Hal Murray]

Gary said:
> Also happens when people play with different install options.

> We have no way to know what the previsou installer did.  So no way to undo
> it.  I don't see a way around that problem. 

I'm interested in the simple developer/tester case, aka me.  The user just 
does a simple install (default options) and then we change where things got 
installed and/or what got installed.  We know what we changed, so we know 
where to look for old cruft.


> We can't remove other copies, it may be intentional.

Good point.  Thanks.


> What I recently did to gpsd is to have all the client programs check the
> modules versions before using the module.  Smoked out a lot of old junk. 

I thought we discussed something like that a long time ago and rejected it.

Should we reconsider?  Seems like a good idea to me.

Would you invent an API version or use the version string from configure?  If 
the latter, short or EXTENDED?



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