Hi Volkan, On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 16:16, Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote: > I deleted all date parsing functionality in Log4j[1] and the compilation... > [drum roll...] succeeded. I am inclined to commit this breaking change. We > can refer users who were previously using Log4j to parse dates (ugh!) to > Commons Lang. The API is identical, they simply need to use a > separate package. *Objections?*
I have mixed feelings about that. Technically it is a breaking change in the API, since the package was never considered as private. On the other hand the alternative would be to either to remove the `parser` field in `FastDateFormat` and change all the `parse` methods to throw an exception or to rewire everything to use `FastDatePrinter` instead of `FastDateFormat`. Piotr
