[squeak-dev] Overrides in newest Monticellos?

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sun Jul 13 19:12:53 UTC 2008


On 13-Jul-08, at 10:56 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote:

> Is there any new Monticello which deals with overrides right? 1.5?  
> 2.0?
>
> I just published my packages and again incorrectly because some  
> methods
> are overridden in extensions of another package. If you do that in
> current MC, you loose those methods in an original package. Bad!
>
> I'm willing to migrate to such MC immediately if available. I think
> working with overrides is such a powerful feature (not to mention that
> VisualWorks have that) that Squeak needs the proper support as soon as
> possible.

MC2 doesn't have a concept of overrides as such, but it does allow  
packages to overlap, and uses versioning history to determine which of  
the two versions of a method should be used.

I'm doing the final clean up for the first release, which will be Real  
Soon Now™.

Colin


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