[lang] FastDateFormat questions

[Sean Schofield]

Here's where I am at with FastDateFormat. I changed the package name (to org.apache.commons.lang.time.) I also pulled down the source code for Pair that it required. I noticed that Pair seemed like the DefaultMapEntry in commons-collections (am I wrong?) Is commons-lang allowed to have dependencies with commons-collections or should we try to avaoid that? (My guess is you will say avoid.)

I'm thinking of making Pair just an inner class for FastDateFormat since we probably don't need it elsewhere. Perhaps there is an existing java class that I am not aware of that could replace it entirely?

Finally, I wrote a few unit tests for FastDateFormat. Once we resolve the Pair issue I'd like to submit FastDateFormat and FastDateFormatTests to be added to CVS. Do we need all of the unit tests to be complete before adding? There are a lot to write and I know Eric, and others are also volunteering to help here.

- sean


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