Hello,
Have a question, wat makes the case special? What makes it illegal? is this a
general problem with unicode characters, outside of BMP, or is it an illegal
sequence or something else? What about latin9 euro sign for example? Do we need
to document somewhere that only ascii is allowed?
Calling it technical debt is pretty useful, too, because just like
monetary debt, it can be useful to accumulate some in the short term
for productive reasons, but if you don't pay it off and manage it
properly, the interest payments begin to dominate expenses. Interest
on technical debt comes in
WRT rant:
We call that "technical debt" and to move the needle on that developers are
(sometimes or always depending on you company) asked to explain the
"business value" for spending the time (IOW the money) to do so. At which
point said developers roll their eyes, pull their remaining hair out,
> If they are still on Java 6 or 7, then updating libraries might not be a
> priority.
>
> Gary
I second that.
If an organization is still reluctant to upgrade at least to JDK 8, its rather
unlikely that the same organization is urgently requiring to update to any
latest commons release.
Hello,
I've created a new PR with IO modules for commons-geometry [1]. This is a
refactoring of an earlier PR I had and incorporates changes suggested by
reviewers. Here are some of the main differences with the previous version:
1. Inputs and outputs are abstracted behind GeometryInput and
I'm till looking for help on getting LANG working on Java 16...
Gary
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 21:39 Gary Gregory wrote:
> Now that Java 16 is out, we really need to look at this IMO but I would
> like help from the community.
>
> My initial guess that this a JDK bug might be wrong and it could be
