Can one be pitch for entry level and the other for advanced use cases? If so, just un-deprecate but still Javadoc to [text] the user's edification.
Gary On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Pascal Schumacher <pascalschumac...@gmx.net > wrote: > Hello everybody, > > with 3.5 we deprecated RandomStringUtils in favor of RandomStringGenerator > in commons-text. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-96 complains that > "RandomStringGenerator is extremely verbose compared to the deprecated > commons.lang3 RandomStringUtils." > > From my experience taking a look at migrating a project from > RandomStringUtils to RandomStringGenerator I have to agree. Some > convenience methods will be added with the next commons text release, but > it still won't be as easy to use as RandomStringUtils. For course > RandomStringGenerator gives the user more options, but most usage of > RandomStringUtils I have seen was just for tests or other simple use-cases > where these option are not required. > > Maybe we should just remove the RandomStringUtils deprecation or add the > whole class untouched to commons-text? > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > > Pascal > >
