Howard, if it really will be as difficult to move from Tap4 to Tap5 as you
suggest, and if this new code base is indeed mostly new, perhaps it might be
prudent to release what you are now calling Tapestry 5 as a new project
instead; one that is "inspired" by the Tapestry concepts and intentions.
Then Tapestry 4 could continued to be mainatained and if other contributers
we re so inclined, it could be upgraded to a more "migration friendly"
Tapestry 5.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the migration difficulty as I dont'
have any Tapestry 3 or 4 projects that I would upgrade. I built what I've
built using the best options I had available at the time and while I
continue to maintain some of those appliactions, I dont' feel a pressing
need to upgrade them to the newest framework. I won't be upgrading them from
Spring 1.2 to Spring 2.0 either. What's the big deal? As far as I'm
concerned, there should be a migration path through all point releases, but
any easy migration is just gravy.

I for one am thrilled to see that Tap5 is dropping some of the encumberances
of it's original implementaton. When I start a new project. I want it to be
using the best tools out available. Here's to Tap5 and all it's
incompatibilities!

On 7/28/06, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Right now its impossible because there's nothing to convert to :-)

It will be *VERY* difficult. This isn't a slap of new paint. Basic
paradigms are shifting around in a major way.  It would be comparable,
or perhaps even larger than, converting between JSF and Tapestry 4.
Possibly on the order of converting from Struts to Tapestry 4.

On 7/27/06, Norbert Sándor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that it's far away, but how easy/difficult will it be to convert
> an application from 4 to 5?
>
> Regards,
> Norbi
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