[croquet] [Q] Tweak menu item registration (was: [Q] Monticello versioning and subclassing)

>>I wrote:
>>> 1.  Does Monticello offer some help with this situation?
>>> 2a.  Do I go ahead and just directly modify the existing class method
>>> to add my two lines and mark it as a Monticello class extension, or
>>> 2b.  Do I do the right thing and put in all the extra subclasses to
>>> properly overload the whole string of dependent class references?
>>> 3.  How do I deal with 2a when the owner of the existing class
>>> modifies that method some other way?

>Schrieb Colin Putney:
>> If the existing class is part of a Monticello package, the best way
>> to deal with it is to just modify the method and save the package.
>> You've effectively created your own branch of that package, and as
>> new versions are released up stream, you just merge them into your
>> branch.

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>This is the best way. Even better is that you refactor the package in
>a way to allow your code to hook in without code changes, and submit
>this version to the package maintainer.

Thank you for your answers.  I like Colin's solution okay, but it
really just allows me to maintain my own packages.  I'm not sure I
would want to publish a branch of someone else's package for just two
lines of code.  I don't know of a good easy way to handle package
dependencies right now either.

To address Bert's even better answer, and getting away from the
Monticello aspect of this, I am talking about adding items to the
Tweak menus in Croquet, which I would expect to be a popular and
active area for changes.  What's a good way to go about menu item
registration?

I have cross-posted this item.

Hi David -

David Faught wrote:
> To address Bert's even better answer, and getting away from the
> Monticello aspect of this, I am talking about adding items to the
> Tweak menus in Croquet, which I would expect to be a popular and
> active area for changes.  What's a good way to go about menu item
> registration?

That's a little bit of an odd question since Croquet is a framework not
an application and I'd expect all applications to provide their own
menus. What your package should probably do is provide sufficient
information such that hooking up the menus can be done in the easiest
and most straightforward way possible - potentially even by having a
utility method that constructs the menu and someone would just add as a
submenu in a particular place.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Hi David -

David Faught wrote:
> To address Bert's even better answer, and getting away from the
> Monticello aspect of this, I am talking about adding items to the
> Tweak menus in Croquet, which I would expect to be a popular and
> active area for changes.  What's a good way to go about menu item
> registration?

That's a little bit of an odd question since Croquet is a framework not
an application and I'd expect all applications to provide their own
menus. What your package should probably do is provide sufficient
information such that hooking up the menus can be done in the easiest
and most straightforward way possible - potentially even by having a
utility method that constructs the menu and someone would just add as a
submenu in a particular place.

Cheers,
   - Andreas