Re: jakarta-commons-lang 2.3

Ralph Apel wrote:
> jakarta-commons-lang seems to be among the packages with "frozen
> version", i.e. 2.1
> There is a jakarta-commons-lang-2.3 in JPP-1.7 but in the QA system this
> package has been explicitly excluded from use.
> As a consequence, maven2-plugin-enforcer cannot currently be used. Its
> use must be patched out, or it might possibly be patched to work with
> commons-lang-2.1..

You know, if a change from 2.3 to 2.1 breaks maven2-plugin-enforcer, who 
can tell how many of our JPP packages will be broken by a lang 2.3?

If you can prove you can rebuild all JPP 5.0 packages that depend on 
commons lang to 2.3 I'd vote that we upgrade.  It seems it is used in 
the JBoss AS indirectly (used to build xstream, which is needed by 
picocontainer etc., very low in the chain).

BTW, JBoss AS 5 CR2 uses commons-lang 2.3 in the build.

Cheers,
Fernando