Don't you mean Java 8? Are you suggesting that Lang 4 would be based on
Java 11?

Gary

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 10:12 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.
>
> -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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