I've found myself wanting it there before and this is so widely used everywhere, not likely to cause any classpath issues.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:24 AM Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, Peter Lee wrote: > > I'm working with TIKA-3141 recently and pushed a PR in github. As Keith > > suggested in the PR, maybe we should add Commons Lang to tika-core, as > > it seems Commons Lang are being used elsewhere in tika but not > > tika-core. > > Historically, we have tried to keep the dependencies on Tika Core > minimised, since you can't opt out of that part, and been looser with the > dependencies of Tika Parsers (and especially the future Tika Parsers > Modules) > > Not to say we can't add it to Core, but I wanted to give some background! > > Nick >