That's an interesting idea. Avi mentioned that the options really belong
to PackageInfo, not just to MC packages. So a StarBrowser interface for
PIs in general could be useful. This doesn't clash with MC itself, and
other package related UIs showing the same hooks.

Daniel

Stephen Pair <stephen at pairhome.net> wrote:
> Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> 
> >I think Monticello could be a good base on which to hang various package
> >level code management functions. Currently, since the browser don't
> >recognize packages, there's nowhere to put them.
> >
> >I'm talking about things like the "recover related code from that
> >changeset" feature I sent it back then, but also about external stuff
> >like "use MudPie to visualize this package". I'm sure you have your own
> >tools that are just begging to have something like that.
> >
> >Daniel
> >
> 
> One possibility for adding extensibility is to create a Monticello UI 
> using the StarBrowser.  In KomPackageBuilder I created a hacked the DVS 
> UI to do more things and I'll probably want to do something similar with 
> the Monticello (but probably using the StarBrowser).  Having a 
> StarBrowser UI for managing packages and repositories would be a very 
> easy was to get an extensible UI for Monticello.  For something familiar 
> with both, it would be very simple to do.
> 
> - Stephen