• in net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.Formatter
  • public methods "start", "end", "getRenderer" should only be called by PMDs Task impl.
  • Ant only needs the methods "set*" and "add*" to be public.
  • public method "isNoOutputSupplied" should be internal and made package-private in PMD7.

See #3692 and #3762 for background information.

Gradle doesn't use the classes directly ( https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/fea8c70d22452656911c9a3ce7da1ef804665d23/subprojects/code-quality/src/main/groovy/org/gradle/api/plugins/quality/internal/PmdInvoker.groovy#L119) , so it shouldn't hurt.