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Re: reintroduce jlint Java static analysis tool?



On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 08:33 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> jlint doesn't seem actively maintained and we already have findbugs and
> checkstyle in Debian.

I tend to think a diversity of static analysis tools is better than
single tools, since they all inevitably wax and wane in maintenance
over the years as well as support different checks.

> Do you need jlint for a specific task?

It is the only Java static analysis tool that check-all-the-things
knows how to run automatically. My last attempt at getting help with
adding support for findbugs/checkstyle/etc was met with silence.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2015/11/msg00019.html

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bye,
pabs

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