uber/okbuck

[Lint] Lint should not depend on compilation

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#791 opened on Jan 8, 2019

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Description

It runs on ASTs, so it can run in parallel to compilation.

As a potential followup, we can maybe look at making lint optionally run as an implicit concurrent action of building a src target

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Analyze the current lint task implementation to understand its dependency on compilation, then propose a way to run lint on ASTs independently.
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java
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backendbuild system
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