RFR: JDK-8230649: Make jpackage tool an experimental feature

Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
Mon Sep 16 13:58:16 UTC 2019



On 9/16/2019 6:06 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 16/09/2019 13:56, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> In that case, it may be better to issue any warnings about it being 
>> experimental directly from jpackage instead of relying on the 
>> incubating modules.
> Incubating modules are incubating non-final APIs so I don't think it's 
> the right solution here. I suspect what is needed is a combination of 
> a warning message (from the tool) and documentation to make it clear 
> that that the feature and CLI options aren't yet final.

Yes, that's what I was thinking as well, now that it's clear that the 
incubating module approach isn't the right one to use.

-- Kevin



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