JEP 238: Multi-Version JAR Files

[dalibor topic]

On 13.02.2015 13:21, Ivan St. Ivanov wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I saw this in the morning and didn't dare to comment in the core libs
> group, but I guess that the adoption mailing list is good enough for my
> question.

Core-libs-dev is the best place for feedback on this JEP,  as it means 
the owner of the JEP has a chance to see your comment and provide 
additional information directly, or in the JEP as necessary.

> So, in Java 9 we are hopefully going to have Jigsaw. One of its features is
> retiring the jar format.

See 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2014-October/003867.html

"The JAR format, despite its numerous flaws, is here to stay and
will likely be a supported packaging and distribution format until the
end of time.  We even plan to make it possible to package true modules
as JAR files, for ease of migration and distribution."

cheers,
dalibor topic

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