If you ask me, I am against adding an additional dependency for tool
support. I would to remove these annotations and the dep completely. Other
opinions? Am I the only one?

2015-01-22 20:25 GMT+01:00 Oliver B. Fischer <[email protected]>:

> Hi Reinhard,
>
> FindBugs and similar tools can use these annotations not only to suppress
> errors. They use it even for flow analysis.
>
> For example @CheckForNull allows FindBugs do detect what a caller of this
> method does not perform a null check and might end in an NPE. Therefor
> these annotations are very usefull for us to improve the quality of our
> code base. Even the users of Tamaya will benefit from it if they also use
> FindBugs.
>
>
> Oliver
>
>
> Am 22.01.15 um 12:25 schrieb Reinhard Sandtner:
>
>> whats the benefit of this lib?
>>
>> is it only for findbugs?
>> we use a filter file - i think its better to have all our exclusions in
>> the filter file with comments why it is excluded. so all are in one place
>> and its very easy to find
>>
>> lg
>> reini
>>
>>
>>  Am 22.01.2015 um 12:17 schrieb Mark Struberg <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> That is really a grey area and up to the lawyer.
>>>
>>> LGPL is only widely agreed to be non-viral if you have it as runtime
>>> linked library.For larger work and direct compile inclusion it is partly
>>> assumed to be viral.
>>>
>>> See our licensing matrix:
>>>
>>> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>>>
>>>
>>> LieGrue,
>>> strub
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 22 January 2015, 12:10, Andres Almiray <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
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