[vtkusers] VTK on Tcl 8.6 and with re-locatable TCL files, and more

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 10/22/2008 02:23 AM, Denis Barbier wrote:
>On 2008/10/21 Sebastien BARRE wrote:
> > At 10/17/2008 02:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>[...]
> >> That patch also does something else useful: it makes it look for
> >>        libvtkFOO.so.5.2
> >> rather than
> >>        libvtkFOO.so
> >> on Mandriva (and probably other distributions), the unversioned .so
> >> files usually go in -devel packages.
> >
> > We can't change that behavior either for backward compatibility reasons.
>
>Out of curiosity, how can this change break backward compatibility?

If doing a "package require vtk" is looking at the unversioned ones, 
and you make it look at the versioned ones directly, then you just 
broke backward compatibility for people who rely on that behavior.