> On Sep 6, 2017, at 7:05 AM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 06:55:49 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: >>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Rob, >>> >>> Looking at frequency I think more number of requests coming >>> for RandomStringUtils for its simplicity. >>> >>> RandomStringGenerator is strong , flexible but one can't use it quickly. >>> Also I think this tool should belong in Commons text's arsenal. I'm not >>> only moving RandomStringUtils to text but changing its core logic with >>> using >>> RandomStringGenerator which seems fair to me. So finally we should release >>> text-1.2 rather doing rollback of deprecation and release lang 3.6.1, WDYT >>> ? >>> >> >> I definitely lean this direction, but if I recall correctly we drew >> “line between [lang] and [text]” to be: a piece of functionality >> should go in [lang] if the arbitrary java developer would probably >> want it, whereas text is geared towards folks actually doing text >> manipulation [1]. >> >> Personally I’m a +0 to +1 on doing this, but I wanted to gauge other >> folks’ thoughts here because I feel like we’re in that grey area here. >> That said, I’m perfectly willing to roll a 1.2 [text] release. > > "Grey area" should favour small components.
Fair point. I take that to mean that you think that it should either go into text to make lang smaller or its own component. I suppose because the generator lives in [text] that makes a good argument for [text]. More thoughts out there? -Rob > > Gilles > >> >> Cheers, >> -Rob >> >> [1] http://markmail.org/message/a2urysnxvxihfoto >> >>> Regards, >>> Amey >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017, 12:00 AM Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> On Sep 5, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello Benedikt, >>>>> >>>>> How about we keep that deprecated in lang and release Text-1.2 ? >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> I’m on board with this if folks are complaining and the original intent >>>> was to deprecate things in [lang]. Why not roll forward as opposed to >>>> backwards? >>>> >>>> But, that opens the question: Is RandomStringUtils something that most >>>> folks would want (i.e. should it be in [lang] or [text])? I think that >>>> question is more the heart of the problem here. Either direction seems >>>> reasonable to me. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
