Well, the categories define the scope of packages in Squeak, together with
the package names. Since system categories do not splice single classes
into parts provided by different modules (here: packages), I see no point
in the concept of extensions for categories. Packages do define this
splicing of classes, and thereby define extension methods, so extension
methods do not make sense without packages. Packages get mixed up with
categories because the assignment of objects to packages works through
categories.

Technically a class would not belong to a package if a) the class were not
in any system category or b) there is no package that covers the
system category.

But it does not matter in this case:
PackageInfo>>extensionMethods answers the methods that belong to the
receiver package, but are defined in classes that do not belong to the same
package. That's why this is *not* about the package being extended, but
about the package extending other classes. Hence I inquired about the
wording of the selectors. The enumerating of methods works by inspecting
all subclasses of ProtoObject. So it even includes extension methods of
classes that are not in a category or without a package covering the
category.

Concerning the cardinality of your package--category association: a package
can contain multiple categories (all with the package name as a prefix of
the category name, separated from the remainder with a -), but the classes
in a category should all belong to a single package. The combined set of
methods of these classes need not all belong to the same package because
some of them can be extension methods that belong to other packages. You
can define overlapping packages, such as Kernel and Kernel-Numbers. Then it
is ambiguous to which package the classes in the category Kernel-Numbers
belong. But you usually don't want to do that.


Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> schrieb am
Di., 14. Jan. 2020, 09:02:

> But I think I need to refine it again ... Actually, I am mixing up system
> categories and packages here. This seems to be a true n:m relation (n, m >=
> 0, n + m > 0, to be exact :P), so I would like to introduce two separate
> selectors, #allExtensionsOfPackage: and #allExtensionsOfSystemCategory:.
>
> However, I did not find any logic in the image to search for extension
> methods without any package. Is this actually missing, or rather intended
> ("you cannot extend a system category, but only a package")? I might be
> completely on the wrong track at the moment ...
>
>
> (To see the issue, you can simply try to browse all extensions of the
> UserObjects category.)
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christoph
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 14. Januar 2020 07:09:55
> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: System-ct.1131.mcz
>
> But it IS the package being extended.  "Of" is just right.  If you'll
> pardon the pun, nice extension, Christoph!   :-D
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:30 PM Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de>
> wrote:
>
>> How about "Extensions from" or "in" instead of "Extensions of" since it
>> is not the package being extended? Native speakers what's your opinion?
>>
>>
>> <commits at source.squeak.org> schrieb am Mo., 13. Jan. 2020, 12:21:
>>
>>> Christoph Thiede uploaded a new version of System to project The Inbox:
>>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/System-ct.1131.mcz
>>>
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>
>>> Name: System-ct.1131
>>> Author: ct
>>> Time: 13 January 2020, 12:21:05.96857 pm
>>> UUID: b10f8320-ffea-024e-9696-4fdc0e642415
>>> Ancestors: System-cmm.1129
>>>
>>> Adds support for extension methods to SystemNavigation
>>>
>>> =============== Diff against System-cmm.1129 ===============
>>>
>>> Item was added:
>>> + ----- Method: SystemNavigation>>allExtensionsOf: (in category 'query')
>>> -----
>>> + allExtensionsOf: aPackage
>>> +
>>> +       ^ aPackage extensionMethods!
>>>
>>> Item was added:
>>> + ----- Method: SystemNavigation>>browseAllExtensionsOf: (in category
>>> 'browse') -----
>>> + browseAllExtensionsOf: aPackage
>>> +       "self default browseAllExtensionsOf: SystemNavigation package"
>>> +
>>> +       ^ self
>>> +                       browseMessageList: [self allExtensionsOf:
>>> aPackage]
>>> +                       name: ('Extensions of package {1}' translated
>>> format: {aPackage name})!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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