DeltaModules vs Envy/Ginsu Class Extensions (was Re: Squeak Starter)

Avi Bryant squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed Oct 23 18:14:08 UTC 2002


On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ned Konz wrote:

> How would you use DVS for a package that included a removal of a
> method that's shipped with some other (non-DVS) package? I ran into
> this just now, as I'd needed to do a little re-factoring on some
> system classes to make something work.
>
> Since DVS doesn't seem to be able to express method removals, it would
> seem to be unable to do this...

True.  Two things I can think of, both of them ugly:

- put the removal in #postscriptText
- as I pointed out to Daniel earlier, move the method to
'*connectors-removals' (or some such) and disable it without actually
removing it (have it call super, say).




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