On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Tom Childers <tom.childers at sun.com> wrote: > Petr, > > I have several questions about this project. Since this is an open > case, I'm changing the cc: to lsarc-ext at sun.com. > > I am wondering what requirement we are trying to fill with this > project. FindBugs is downloadable, gets updated frequently, and is not > prepackaged on any other platform I know of. The version you are > shipping is already out of date; the 1.3.6 release became available a > few days ago. > > 1. Why does this inclusion in OpenSolaris improve OpenSolaris? Won't > the subset of users who want it just download it like other tools? Is > it worth the 7+MB expansion of the OpenSolaris product?
I'm not so much bothered by the inclusion of findbugs, but would ask whether it is isolated or part of a wider plan to include a full set of similar tools? For example, I use PMD a lot, checkstyle occasionally, and findbugs once in a while. And it seems that the best plan of action is to run several such tools against your code. (Indeed, the reference [3] notes exactly that.) >> Exported Interfaces: >> >> NAME STABILITY NOTES >> >> SUNWfindbugs committed package name >> >> /usr/bin/findbugs uncommitted startup script >> /usr/findbugs uncommitted root directory for Shouldn't that be under /usr/lib or /usr/share, rather than directly under /usr? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
