On 28 November 2016 at 10:41, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 November 2016 at 22:31, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It is _because_ they are NOT built-in the language or JRE that we are >> proposing they belong in [lang]. >> >> Since we are providing the annotation with CLASS retention only >> (initially), there is no hard dependency on [lang] at runtime. >> >> Is there some subtlety we are missing? > > Yes, the compile-time dependency. > > AFAIK it's not possible to have a Maven compile-only dependency; > compile-time implies run-time.
I have a recollection of having used the "optional" dependency feature for compile time annotations in the past: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html Cheers, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
