The changes went in for 5.0, the code works the same, it's just been refactored to have most of the page fragments
generated from includes in forums/lib/. So for example
forum-view.adp includes /packages/forums/lib/message/threads-chunk rather than
having the forum list directly generated in the .adp.
The advantage here is the portlet then can simply reuse this
code rather than having to have a chunk largely copied from
the regular page .adp.
The ultimate goal here is I think to further refactor
forums so there would be a forums-base which had the tcl libraries, lib includes, etc, and multiple forums-ui packages which implemented front ends with possibly quite different security policy, navigation, etc.
It's not terrible to have a default interface in forums
but I find having a service/application pair is easier to
understand and cleaner in implementation.
Also, to be clear, the consensus on this TIP was that it was
a good idea, and the refactoring of page components into
includes was something we wanted to see, but changes to
specific modules should be tipped individually.
