Internally, it will be tagged STRUTS_1_4, and the JavaDocs will refer
to Struts Tiles 1.4.0 rather than Struts Tiles 1.3.9, but I don't
think that will confuse anyone. Meanwhile, Apache Tiles is now
distributing 2.0.4 (beta). More importantly, until Apache Tiles has a
GA release, it would be dangerous for Struts 1 to change its
dependency, since it could hold back the quality grade for the rest of
Struts 1.4.x. In Struts 2.x, Tiles is a plugin and a separate JAR, so
it doesn't hold back the quality of the Struts 2 Core JAR.

I'm sure once Apache Tiles is 2.x is GA, and someone does the
appropriate integration work, moving the dependency would be joyful
for everyone concerned.

-Ted

On 7/22/07, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/7/21, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> O the provocation! Just kidding. It's a good idea, but it's too soon.
> There were similar discussions about dropping struts-faces because it's
> really no longer supported. The difference is the amount of time between
> the lack of support. I still use Tiles 1 (provocation!) and, I imagine,
> it's still widely used by others? The move to Tiles 2 will happen
> naturally and organically, and then in the future, it will be an
> acceptable time to perhaps remove it.

I see your point, Paul. But the problem is that, moving to Struts 1.4,
the Tiles module will be tagged as 1.4 version as well. IMHO this
leads to a false idea that Tiles is evolving (for example, the DTD).
Maybe in the "tiles" module in Struts codebase we could leave only
"glue code" (the plugin, actions as controllers, etc.), adding a
dependency to the 1.3 branch of Tiles development.
It's just an idea, and surely not the best, since I foresee a big
trouble if we find a serious bug in Tiles and we need to release, say,
Tiles 1.3.50 without releasing Struts 1.3.50 to adapt to Tiles 1.4.10
glue code.
Well, it's just thinking aloud :-)

Ciao
Antonio

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