> On Jul 26, 2020, at 10:11 AM, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jul 26, 2020, at 7:43 AM, Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> btw, is there a roadmap/timeline for 4.0?
>> And will we continue maintaining 3.x then?
>
> I would think 4.0 might happen in conjunction with the release of Java 17
> (the next expected LTS version I’ve seen for java). I think that’s when we
> can make breaking changes off Java 7.
>
Furthermore, I think we’ll have a lot of major version changes in commons
surrounding that java release.
> -Rob
>
>>
>> Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> 于2020年7月26日周日 下午7:25写道：
>>
>>> 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
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