We've already called a vote on this back in May, but a -1 that wanted us to include Lang.time caused us to delay and since then we've been dealing with more minutae.
So, without further ado, I'll repeat my call for a VOTE last May. The information on what has changed below is largely the same as it was in May. The largest change since May not reflected below is a big push on Unit Tests [thanks to Clover's superb visualisation, we've got about 88% coverage in Clover] and documentation [thanks to Maven and JDiff]. ======================================================================== Our t's are dotted and our i's are crossed, so we'd like to make a release of Commons Lang 2.0. [ ] +1 I support Commons Lang 2.0 [ ] +0 Huh? Sure, let me sleep. [ ] -0 Lang? Sounds bad. [ ] -1 I hate you guys. [http://www.apache.org/~bayard/lang2.0/ contains what I am planning to use as the build, we will not be using Maven as the site for 2.0, but I generate it for reference] What's not going: ---------------- lang.functor has been removed from Lang. Collections will gain what it needs and [Functor] will be looked to for the complete functor-style solution. lang.reflect is not ready yet. lang.util.Identifier is not ready yet. New maven configuration with the aim of moving Lang to a mavenised site. What's new: ---------- lang.math.* package, which contains Range classes, RandomUtils and a Fraction class. In the top level package, we see a series of additions. There are a set of reusable Exceptions which provide slightly tighter meaning than their Commons Lang superclasses, IllegalClassException and NotImplementedException are examples of these. We also see the addition of more Utils classes: ArrayUtils BooleanUtils ClassUtils StringEscapeUtils StringPrintWriter WordUtils We also see the addition of Validate class [akin to JUnit Assert in style] and BitField from the old Commons Util project [as created by POI]. What's changed: -------------- ToStringBuilder has gained an inner class. builder.* packages have gained new methods NumberUtils has a series of constants, LONG_ZERO, LONG_ONE etc. StringUtils has a series of new methods. The order in which a nested exception is printed has been reversed and a static legacy option left to reverse it the other way if desired. This now matches JDK 1.4 direction. What's gone: ----------- lang.NumberRange is gone as it has now moved into the math subpackage. The release: ----------- Following a successful vote, the PMC will be notified of the desire to release and the instructions at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/ followed to create a release. A changelog with 'jardiff' will be included and JDiff will be used to generate a site showing changes [as shown in http://www.apache.org/~bayard/commons-lang-2.0/Commons-Lang-1.0.1-to-2.0/changes.html]. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
