Comments on jpackage (JEP 343)

[Kevin Rushforth]

Hi Phil,

In the app-image case it always creates a new directory with the name of 
the application underneath the dest/output directory for holding all of 
the files. So you either have:

    <dest>/appname.ext

or

    <dest>/appname/

So I think "." is a reasonable default if not specified.

As to whether to call it "--dest" or "--output", I don't have a strong 
opinion. There are precedents for both.

-- Kevin


On 9/16/2019 8:24 PM, Philip Race wrote:
> > but I'd concede it to be "." as a default
>
> On second thoughts I am not sure about that either.
> I find it much cleaner to know what was generated by looking in a new 
> directory rather than
> hunting in my current directory, especially for the default app-image 
> case which will dump
> a bunch of unfamiliar files.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 9/16/19, 8:13 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>> I've been thinking about this.
>> output is nicely symmetrical with input and in the case of a default 
>> app-image it is more than a single item
>> and personally I'd much rather it not clutter my working directory 
>> and again you get symmetry with input
>> which you really want to specify  but I'd concede it to be "." as a 
>> default over changing the name to dest ...
>>
>> There is also precedent :
>> jlink uses -output and these two tools are going to be frequently 
>> used together.
>>
>> So I would like to see the status quo.
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>>
>> On 9/3/19, 11:58 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>>    - The `--output`/`-o` option is confusing.  It doesn’t name the 
>>> output
>>>      itself, but rather a directory into which the single item of 
>>> output
>>>      will be placed.  Typing `-o .` all the time is just annoying.  
>>> It’d
>>>      be more logical to rename this option to `--dest`/`-d` and to 
>>> make it
>>>      optional, with a default value of `.`.