Hi,

I like the feature "extension" in Monticello because I can in the
package I working on add easily some fine tuning in other classes or
category I need for this package.

But whereas it's straightforward thanks to PackageInfo when I would
like to tune an existing class to make it usable for a package, I need
sometimes to tune an existing package/category (I identify both in the
following) to add some useful functionalities. For instance, I can
tune some classes like Set by adding methods extensions, and I need
also to tune the Collection-Unordered category by adding classes like
DictionaryWithDefault.

Presently, in PackageInfo, there is two methods called
extensionMethods and extensionClasses which names puzzled me for what
I want to do :

extension methods : this is methods extending the instance side of a
current class

extension classes : this is methods extending the side class of a
current class

I propose the following :

extensionInstanceMethods : this is methods extending the instance side of an
existing class

extensionClassMethods : this is methods extending the side class of an
existing class

and add

extensionCategoryClasses : this is classes extending an existing
package

For extension methods, there is the convention to prefix the protocol
method with an * and the modifying package :
*squeakenh-collections-accessing.


In a same way, I propose the following convention :

Collections-Unordered-*SqueakEnh-Collections

(or *<ModifyingPackage>-<Section>-<PackageName>-<Section> but for
browser displaying categories in alphabetic order, the other one would
be more convenient)


A view in a browser would be

*[+] <PackageName> if it is an extension

For instance, with no extensions

[-] Collections
    |
    |___Unordered

with an extension

*[-] Collections
    |
    |___ [+] Unordered 

where when unfolding Unordered will make appear the package-section
modifying this package.
(Collections-Unordered-*SqueakEnh-Collections)

Before digging into PackageInfo code, what do you think about this
kind of feature ? 

Regards,
Samir

Note : it would be great to have a browser with a folding/unfolding
feature for category !


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