Make jetbrains annotations dependencies as provided?

[ahornace]

Hello,

we are using your library but unfortunately it brings jetbrains annotations with versions 12 and 19 as its dependencies whereas we use the newest version 21. We chose to exclude the annotations library in maven when adding chronicle-map, however, the Tomcat jar scanning still complains.

Do you think it would make sense to mark the library as provided (compile only)? The annotations themselves should not be required as a regular dependency since they mostly should be used by IDE and their RetentionPolicy is CLASS so they shouldn't be used by reflection. Furthermore, even official github page marks them as provided: https://github.com/JetBrains/java-annotations

Thanks!

[minborg]

As a side note, we are planning to upgrade to 21.

[minborg]

This is how it would look like in the TPB:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
  <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
  <version>21.0.1</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

[minborg]

Related to OpenHFT/OpenHFT#49