[LANG-1602] Deprecate duplicate functionality with other Apache Commons components

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 4.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gilles Sadowski
• Created: 25/Aug/20 10:36
• Updated: 23/Aug/22 13:24

Description

Several utilities provided by [Lang] are also implemented in other Commons components.
The next major release is an opportunity to reduce code bloat in [Lang].
Users of the deprecated functionality should be referred to using the more specialized, more focused components instead.

List of duplicate functionalities:

• Pseudo-random number utilities (see Commons RNG)
• Fraction (see Commons Numbers)
• ...

Sub-Tasks

• Deprecate the "Fraction" class: Open
• Deprecate RandomUtils in favor of Apache Commons RNG UniformRandomProvider: Resolved
• Deprecate the "RandomStringUtils" class: Open