Re: Initial annotation support is in SVN trunk

> Hi all!
>
> Initial support for annotations has been committed to the SVN trunk.
> Here is a short list of what is done and what should be done in the
> future:
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> What it does:
>
> 1/  It doesn't break anything existing (hopefully)
> 2/ Performs checks on annotation usage so this is correct (retention
> policy, targets, attribute types, etc.)
>
> What it doesn't do:
> 1/ doesn't support annotation array attributes
> 2/ doesn't support annotation annotation attributes
> 3/ doesn't support annotations on parameters, local variables, annotations
> 4/ doesn't implement support for defining annotations
>
> Last but not least, there are not test committed in the trunk, as we
> need to figure out how we can add test to be run only if a JVM >= 1.5
> is available at build time.
>
> However I have attached here what I am using for testing the code (a
> set of annotations and scripts).
>
> Please give it a try a let me know.
>
> ./alex
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