Monticello Question

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Thu Feb 12 17:55:22 UTC 2004


Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Am 12.02.2004 um 17:59 schrieb Colin Putney:
> 
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Steven Swerling wrote:
>>
>>> I have a large package, and I want it to make a minor change to a 
>>> base system method. Namely, I want SystemWindow's passivate method to 
>>> send a #passivated event. It seems innappropriate to reclassify the 
>>> SystemWindow>>passivate method to be in my own '*mypackage' method 
>>> category. With a SAR, I can put this small change in a separate 
>>> changeset (in MyPackageInfo>>additionalChangeSets). Is there a way to 
>>> do this in Monticello, too? (Sorry if this has been covered, I could 
>>> not find a previous thread that addressed this scenario). Or should I 
>>> just stick to SAR packages for distributing a package that needs to 
>>> make a change to the base system?
>>
>>
>> You can classify it as '*mypackage-overrides'.
>>
>> When unloading your package, Monticello will then restore the original 
>> version of the method.
> 
> 
> Looking at the code I believe that should be "*mypackage-override" 
> without a trailing "s".

Yup, my bad.

Colin



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