Note that Lang does not and should not depend on Text for example. Some classes that are in Lang now have been deprecated in favor of similar functionality in Text, the Str[ing]Substitutor packages for instance. We can remove that Lang code in 4.0.
Gary On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 04:16 Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org> wrote: > Not following the thread, but from your explanation it sounds OK to me. > There are other parts of Lang that could do with some trimming for a future > 4.x release I think, either moving some code to other components or > suggesting the use of JVM code (e.g. some of the date/time methods). > > > Bruno > > > > > > > On Sunday, 26 July 2020, 6:26:05 am NZST, Gilles Sadowski < > gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > In the thread[1] from which the below quote is extracted: > > Would you be willing to provide a PR that deprecates the relevant APIs > and > > points to their equivalent in RNG? It will be more cruft we can trim for > > 4.0, whenever that happens. > Gary mentions that copy/paste is a "coding horror". My understanding > is that he advises dropping functionality available from "Commons RNG" > (or a trivial use of it). > Case in point is a bug recently reported.[2] > > The change amounts to removing "RandomUtils"[3] and moving all > functionality from "RandomStringUtils"[4] (and removing it too) over > to "Commons Text" that already defines several similar (perhaps all?) > utilities[5] using a more robust approach. > > Is everyone on the same page? > > Regards, > Gilles > > [1] https://markmail.org/message/s2o3c57537id37jt > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1592 > [3] > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-lang.git;a=blob;f=src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/RandomUtils.java;h=b1c7f0fb147c586a57cd498734bfb5bc92f19f37;hb=HEAD > [4] > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-lang.git;a=blob;f=src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/RandomStringUtils.java;h=0d6df4eed0d91bbd32ad378c28400fdf049ee542;hb=HEAD > [5] > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-text.git;a=blob;f=src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/RandomStringGenerator.java;h=d8e38e4614dba548ef764225b87626f3a4cda434;hb=HEAD > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
