On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Simon Moore wrote:
> I don't want to spark off any arguments but was there any real strong reason > why it wasn't kept within commons.lang or at least moved to another package? It moved to Commons Util, which was a sandboxed project, but that was nuked recently. It had become a repository for unrelated and not very important flotsam [in the general scheme of things]. The reason for moving it out of Commons.Lang is that there's a very big worry that Commons Lang will grow too big and become Commons.Jakarta.JDK. This manifests itself in two ways, firstly there is a definite push for every class to justify its existence, and secondly there is an increasing barrier to new concepts going in. > I've had to add the method to our own string utils class :( ( I think it's > relative) > I suppose it went through the deprecation process?? ;) Nope. Having deprecations from a beta to a first release seemed overkill. I for one ought to make a good mental note of this case as I tend to not be a believer in deprecation. I prefer to break it up front so that people can solve it while the issues are still understood, and not in a year when everyone's forgotten what the deal was. That's not a common view though at Apache. This was definitely a case of the beta being 'cleaned' before release. Sorry about that, Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
