[Cuis-dev] Question about package building and system classes

[Phil B]

Mauro,

I did a screencast a while back that might be helpful (the link jumps right
to the point where I start talking about adding a class variable):
https://youtu.be/jXuoFEkg6UA?t=586

Hope that helps,
Phil

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:40 PM Mauro Rizzi via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm looking into using packages as ways to deliver feature packs and found
> myself in an issue where I need to add a class variable to a system class.
>
> I have no issue adding the variable to the class, the problem is when I
> try to reflect this change on a package. So far the only way I see of
> adding or removing things from a package is changing the category name of
> methods/classes so they fit into the package file.
>
> However I don't think it would be a good idea to move the whole Utility
> class into a package system category just to add a single var.
>
> So far i'm just considering either adding it through the addClassVarName:
> method (after checking if it doesn't exist) in one of the methods that uses
> that variable regularly or straight up injecting the code into the package
> file so it's executed on fileIn.
>
> Both ways seem like hacky workarounds that might actually cause problems
> (for example if the package is later removed that variable won't be removed
> at all).
>
> Is there any other way to add the modification of the Utility class into
> my package? Or is the idea that package modifications are identified and
> tracked by the categories only?
>
> And before you say changesets. Yes I know they can reflect this, but
> packages allow me to work on different things on the system without having
> to have a separate image for each or touching up the contents of the
> changesets.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Mauro Rizzi*
>
>
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