if (a == b) {
      return true;
    }
    if (a == null || b == null) {
      return false;
    }
    return doEquivalent(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * @since 10.0 (previously, subclasses would override equivalent())
   */
  @ForOverride
  protected abstract boolean doEquivalent(T a, T b);

  /**
   * <i>May</i> return {@code true} if {@code object} is a {@code Equivalence} that behaves

We can do better...

## What makes a dependency { #what-makes-a-dependency }

Up to now you have seen dependencies declared as functions.

But that's not the only way to declare dependencies (although it would probably be the more common).

The key factor is that a dependency should be a "callable".

A "**callable**" in Python is anything that Python can "call" like a function.

            <configuration>
              <excludes>
                <!-- Yes, we want to exclude ForceGuavaCompilation 4 times: -->
                <!-- (And we might as well exclude DummyJavadocClass 3 times (though it would be harmless to include).) -->
                <!-- 1. Don't compile it (since that requires a *non-test* dep on gwt-user. -->
                <exclude>**/ForceGuavaCompilation*</exclude>

* client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

We don't break binary compatibility with non-alpha APIs.


## Version 5.0.0-alpha.16

_2025-05-29_

 *  Fix: The previous release would crash when running on Robolectric. We didn't anticipate
    running our Android artifact on the JVM platform!


## Version 5.0.0-alpha.15

_2025-05-28_

        dstIndex++;
        dst[dstIndex++] = (byte) (this.byteCount >> 8 & 0xFF);
        dstIndex += this.byteCount;

        /*
         * Normally, without intervention everything would batch
         * with everything else. If the below clause evaluates true
         * the andx command will not be written and therefore the
         * response will not read a batched command and therefore

    @Test
    void testExtendedPluginDescriptor() {
        ExtendedPluginDescriptor.Builder builder = new ExtendedPluginDescriptor.Builder();
        // make sure to call the subclasses' builder methods first, otherwise fluent API would not work
        builder.additionalField("additional")
                .groupId("org.apache.maven")
                .artifactId("maven-plugin-api")
                .version("1.0.0");

 * either express or implied. See the License for the specific language
 * governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 */
package org.codelibs.fess.app.web.admin.badword;

/**
 * The download form for Bad Word.
 *
 */
public class DownloadForm {

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    public DownloadForm() {
        // Use of default constructor
    }

 *
 * <p>This class can't depend on other Guava code. If we were to load this class in the same class
 * loader as the rest of Guava, this thread would keep an indirect strong reference to the class
 * loader and prevent it from being garbage collected. This poses a problem for environments where

       can"t benefit from incremental build acceleration, because on every
       execution it sees that the classpath has changed, and so to be
       safe, it needs to re-run.

       - This is unfortunate, because actually it would be safe to declare
       the task as up-to-date, because these two files, which are based on
       the generated index.xml, are outputs, not inputs. We can be sure of