Why isn't spring-cloud-netflix using AutoConfigurationPackages as an input for component scan ?

[G-Lem]

I was hoping to create an spring boot starter having an AutoConfiguration annotated with @EnableFeignClients and naively hoping it would scan automatically packages in my application for @FeignClient annotated classes. While investigating I read a lot of spring-boot/spring-cloud source to understand how these components work/are implemented and found out that spring-cloud was just not using auto configuration packages.

Is there any reason why spring-cloud isn't making use of AutoConfigurationPackages ? Could it be possible to have it implemented ? Thanks for your feedback.

[spencergibb]

I didn't know about AutoConfigurationPackages :-)