Jason Rogers wrote:

>On 12/9/05, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
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>>Ramon Leon wrote:
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>>>>That's how I use it today.
>>>>But, what if you want to add classes from other categories,
>>>>that do not have the prefixed name?
>>>>For instance, I have an app and all the classes are in the
>>>>same category. No problem. But, I have a plugin that I want
>>>>to include in this package, but I want to to stay in another
>>>>category. It does not have the prefixed name (in your
>>>>example, it does not have the "CoolProgram" prefix.) How do
>>>>you add that -- w/o adding that complete category as a
>>>>required package?
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>>>That's what the dependency mechanism is for, add that other package as a
>>>dependency of this package, rather than trying to put it in this
>>>package.  Packages are the proper level of reuse, not classes, so if you
>>>use one class from another package, then you rightfully depend on that
>>>other package.
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>>Not if I only depend on that one class. I only want to add one class,
>>not all of the classes in the category. Unless I'm missing something
>>very basic -- which is entirely possible :-)
>>
>>What I would like is to add single classes from different categories.
>>Sure, I could change the category of, let's say, a plugin class. But, I
>>would like to keep the plugin under the VMMaker-Plugins category, and
>>not create a new category just to add it to a package.
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>I think one of the issues that Ramon is driving at is that using a
>class from another package means that you may be indirectly using
>other classes in that package, whether you mean to or not.  So, the
>proper level of dependency IS at the package level, not at the class
>level.
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What you _really_ do when you add a Package is add a Category, right?   
Categories are arbitrary. If you add VMMaker-Plugins you get all of the 
classes in the category, right? I just want to save my one class from 
that category, I don't want to save all of them. What am I missing?