Hi all,
I trying to work out what the best scope is for using annotations that
have @Retention(value=SOURCE).
There doesn't seem to be a clean fit and at the moment I'm using
Scope = provided and optional = true. But this is kind off an ugly
workaround and doesn't really describe correctly the dependency (neither
does scope compile, optional=true).
The reason I feel these are ugly as they both imply that some extra
features could be available if you provided the optional library - which
is not the case providing the library at runtime gets you nothing.
Would/could/should maven add a new scope "source" which is only
available at compile time and doesn't take any part in transitive
dependencies or is there a better way to describe the dependency
relationship?
/James
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