Bugzilla Bug 97366

It seems that struts-1.1.x and struts-1.2.x are not library compatible.

I found this out when I noticed that tomcat depends on =1.1* being installed, and I had 1.2 installed at the time. I tried changing the tomcat ebuild, but it failed at some point when dealing with struts (I don't have any logs at the moment).

I also encountered this with my work with the spring-framework. I was using struts-1.2 when I was writing the ebuild. Since then, I downgraded to 1.1 for tomcat. Where it worked fine with 1.2, now I get compile errors dealing with struts again:
    [javac] Found 3 semantic errors compiling "/var/tmp/portage/spring-framework-1.2.1/work/spring-framework-1.2.1/src/org/springframework/web/struts/MappingDispatchActionSupport.java":

    [javac]     24. import org.apache.struts.actions.MappingDispatchAction;
    [javac]                ^---------------------------------------------^
    [javac] *** Semantic Error: The import "org/apache/struts/actions/MappingDispatchAction" is not valid, since it does not name a type in a package.


    [javac]     62. public abstract class MappingDispatchActionSupport extends MappingDispatchAction {
    [javac]                                                                    ^-------------------^
    [javac] *** Semantic Error: A candidate for type "MappingDispatchAction" was found, but it is invalid and needs to be fixed before this type will successfully compile.


    [javac]     75.                 super.setServlet(actionServlet);
    [javac]                         ^-----------------------------^
    [javac] *** Semantic Error: No accessible method with signature "setServlet(org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet)" was found in type "java.lang.Object".

So, this leads me to the conclusion that 1.2 should be slotted as such.

I agree they should be slotted,  its installed as a dependancy of two different
packages for me so everytime i update world it bounces back and forth from 1.2
to downgrade to 1.1, to upgrade, to downgrade.

slotting would solve the problem completely.

Struts has now been slotted in the official tree. Thanks for reporting.