[BUG] loading new version of RB deletes important methods

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Thu Sep 18 00:03:29 UTC 2003


On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Ned Konz wrote:

> Perhaps the meaning of "removing an extension method" should be to
> revert to the most recent non-package version of that method, if any.

Yes.  This has been brought up before, but nobody has actually gotten
around to implementing that yet.

I would say "most recent version of that method not in the package" rather
than "non-package"; in theory you could have multiple overlapping
packages (although hopefully that won't happen much).

It really needs to be done; maybe I'll have time tomorrow.



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