Comments on jpackage (JEP 343)

[Kevin Rushforth]

OK, that makes sense. Andy has already implemented this change (pushed 
it to the sandbox), so it will be in the next EA build.

-- Kevin

On 9/19/2019 10:25 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> jlink’s -o/--output option names exactly the thing being output,
> rather than a container for the thing being output.
>
> The jpackage option we’re discussing here names a container for the
> thing being output, much like the -d option of javac and javadoc.
>
> Using -d/--dest for jpackage is consistent with the JDK’s other
> command-line tools.
>
> - Mark