[collections] collections depends on lang? (RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/collections/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections ClassMap.java)

Personally, I'd prefer not to have collections depend upon lang (currently it doesn't depend upon anything else, correct?), at least not if ClassMap is the best justification we have for it. A lot of other packages use Collections, so adding a new dependency to Collections is adding a new

Re: [collections] collections depends on lang? (RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/collections/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections ClassMap.java)

When libraries are too small, you start to have to make bad decisions about coupling. There are natural ways for lang, collections, beanutils and a few others to interact. Coupling them is probably better than duplicating the behavior. OTOH, it does introduce more management difficulties,