Migrating library classes to value classes

[Kevin Bourrillion]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

For a class that you want to see both as an identity class and a value
> class, either you use Maven or Gradle (see [1]) but you have to hand manage
> the different versions or you use a special bytecode rewriter that look for
> annotations internal to your project and duplicate the classes (it seems a
> good use case for the classfile API) with one version being an identity
> class and one version being a value classes.
>

And don't forget the testing impact.

I view this as not a good solution, and think that approaches that don't
require users to rig up such machinery on their side are worth finding when
possible.
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