The key benefit can be had with monkey patching as well: - Publishing a new solution and making it available. The packaging is not ideal, as setup and configu

The key benefit can be had with monkey patching as well: - Publishing a new solution and making it available. The packaging is not ideal, as setup and configuration of the lib+patch will not be as simple as pulling a modified lib. But think what you would have to do to incorporate 5 separate patches to a given library. It could very well be simpler to run 5 monkey patches than to fork a project and do 5 merges.