Can we make DaciukMihovAutomatonBuilder pkg-private?

[gsmiller]

Description

There's some good suggestions/discussion around renaming this class in #12310, but I wonder if we should consider making it pkg-private and exposing the build functionality through Automata instead? We already do this with Automata#makeStringUnion, so maybe we could shrink our API footprint and consolidate everything behind Automata?

[mikemccand]

Oooh I love that idea!

[gsmiller]

Thanks @mikemccand. I'll take this up after #12320, unless someone else jumps on it first. I'd like to keep it separate from the changes in #12320 to avoid putting too much in one PR.

[rmuir]

nice idea!

[uschindler]

Yes, yes, yes!

[gsmiller]

Actually, on second thought, this will be easy to resolve with the other PR I'm working on (#12320), so I'll go ahead with a PR. Here we go: #12331

[gsmiller]

Merged on main (#12331) and also added some deprecation notices on 9.x (#12332).