On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Antonio Petrelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > this is a rant against myself :-D > I just discovered that I did the Velocity support in the wrong way, > since I somewhat forced the concept of Tool in Velocity to become a > tag. > In fact, I noticed that the best way to write the corresponding > concept of tag in Velocity into custom *directives*. For this reason I > opened this issue: > http://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/TILES-490 > > Note that the VelocityStyleTilesTool is ok, since it is a *real* tool: > http://tiles.apache.org/framework/apidocs/org/apache/tiles/velocity/template/VelocityStyleTilesTool.html
yep. even if it's API is a bit verbose. ;) > Now the question is: what should we do with the "Tiles2Tool" that is a > chimera between a tool and a tag? > http://tiles.apache.org/framework/apidocs/org/apache/tiles/velocity/template/Tiles2Tool.html > > IMHO the best thing to do is to delete it, though we released a beta > version of the 2.2 series. i have no love for it. but beta is not alpha. can we deprecate for a version and delete in the subsequent one? > What do you think? > > Antonio >
