On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 11:59, Apache <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > > > If this is a runtime dependency then I am against using it in Log4J api and > > core. > > It is an annotation-only library, with a retention of `RUNTIME`. > However annotations should not cause `NoClassDefFoundError`s.
I would like to confirm that from experiments in Apache Commons. Still don't understand, why, but such runtime dependencies really aren't missing at runtime. Or, in other words: Plain users won't be bothered. Jochen -- The woman was born in a full-blown thunderstorm. She probably told it to be quiet. It probably did. (Robert Jordan, Winter's heart)
