i am currenty develop an app in seaside, and am wondering about best practices when using external packages.

in my case, i am using a copy of TF-Login that i updated to work in pharo 2.

The main class in that package is RegisteredUser. as is true in most cases, i will be tweaking this object a great deal.

this package also contains a great deal of renderers that will be tweaked.

so, my question is:

how should i go about this?

should i take RegisteredUser and sublcass it? this might requried me to change other code in the package? should i subclass the renders and override their methods?

should i just go ahead and edit the TF-Login package directly?

my initial thought was to edit the package direclty, but i am not sure what would happen if the package is externally updated.

thoughts? ideas?

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peace,
sergio
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