[ENH] RemovePackageMethod

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Thu Jul 31 23:18:14 UTC 2003


On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bernhard Pieber wrote:

> Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> > The problem with this is that you may be removing extension methods
> > that replaced existing methods in the system.
> >
> > What you probably want to do is to revert them, but we don't have
> > enough context to tell which version you'd want to revert them to. If
> > you could tell that a certain version came from a given package or
> > package version, that would be easier.
> How about an intermediate solution? Envy uses it and IMHO it works quite
> well.

<snip>

That's a good approach to remember.  It will only work once we have the
entire image packaged, however, instead of the situation right now where
the vast majority of the code isn't in any package at all.



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