robert burrell donkin wrote:
>
> does org.apache.velocity.util.StringUtil have a future?
>
> IMHO java documentation telling people to write their own replacement
> methods implies that StringUtils is pretty much dead.
>
> On Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 06:24 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
> > On 8/25/01 1:21 PM, "Daniel Rall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>> sorry if i'm labouring the point - but why does the deprecation
> >>> message refer people to a different class when there are methods in
> >>> StringUtils that already do what's wanted?
> >>
> >> I would prefer people to use that other package. IMO, Velocity should
> >> not be a repository housing code available elsewhere.
> >
> > I agree.
>
> all the code in StringUtils is either available elsewhere or it's very
> easy to write (which is basically what the deprecation message tells
> people to do).
>
> i don't have any particular problem freezing StingUtil's - it's just that
> i'd prefer to know so i don't waste my time preparing patches.
This is the problem as I see it - and I am not really focused in this
area -
I think that we should deprecate them out - I don't think they belong
here anyway, especially now that we have a useful home in commons. that
said, I know Texen depends on them, and we won't screw Texen users -
maybe we deprecate, migrate to Commons, and then just include the
commons tools in the vel.jar, like we do with log and oro.
geir
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