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Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release of Commons Lang 2.0 [take 2]
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:55:17 -0400
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Thread-Topic: [VOTE] Release of Commons Lang 2.0 [take 2]
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,
+1, let's get it out the door... ;)

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@generationjava.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:55 AM
>To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
>Cc: Jakarta Project Management Committee List
>Subject: [VOTE] Release of Commons Lang 2.0 [take 2]
>
>
>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 i=
n
>May.
>
>The largest change since May not reflected below is a big push on Uni=
t
>Tests [thanks to Clover's superb visualisation, we've got about 88%
>coverage in Clover] and documentation [thanks to Maven and JDiff].
>
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=3D
>
>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 t=
o
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 i=
t
>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 s=
et
of
>reusable Exceptions which provide slightly tighter meaning than their=

>Commons Lang superclasses, IllegalClassException and
>NotImplementedException are examples of these. We also see the additi=
on
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 an=
d
a
>static legacy option left to reverse it the other way if desired. Thi=
s
>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 t=
o
>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 b=
e
>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
>
>
>
>
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