> 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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