> On 18 Dec 2016, at 10:51, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18 December 2016 at 10:40, Pascal Schumacher > <pascalschumac...@gmx.net> wrote: >> Am 18.12.2016 um 11:23 schrieb sebb: >>> >>> It's definitely too specialised for LANG. >> >> I do not think this is too specialized for LANG. RandomStringUtils has been >> part of LANG since 1.0, and this is just an improved version of existing >> functionality. > > I don't think RandomStringUtils itself belongs in LANG, now that there > is a TEXT component. > > Quite a few TEXT-like classes were added to LANG because there was nowhere > else.
I agree with this. Creating random strings is not really a missing feature from java.lang.*. We should add a similar class to TEXT, but take the opportunity to simplify some of the complicated semantics of the current version. We can then deprecated RandomStringUtils and remove it in 4.0. > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
