Monticello Question

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Thu Feb 12 16:59:56 UTC 2004


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.

Colin




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