on ecosystem/tool support (Re: Re: Nonnullability)

[Raoul Duke]

> I use FindBugs (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) with JSR-305, and their
> special annotations (sadly not all available with Scala 2.7.x, hopefully
> 2.8.x will make them work).

i do wonder if it would be a nice (some day, some day) idea to add to
the release tests for Scala: what 3rd party tools from the wider
ecosystem should not become broken.

sincerely.