RFR: 8173970: jar tool should have a way to extract to a directory

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/03/2021 12:18, Lance Andersen wrote:
>
> :
>
> I don’t have a strong preference but lean slightly towards 
> ‘-directory’ as it is more descriptive, similar to the other GNU-style 
> commands jar currently supports .  Tar supports ‘—cd’, ‘—directory’ in 
> addition to ‘-C’ which is why I suggested supporting  both GNU-style 
> long options.
>
> Perhaps jpackage should also support —dir/directory in addition to 
> ‘—dest' if we are looking at consistency between java tools.
>
> I do agree that it would be nice to be consistent across the java 
> tools for options so if we go the ‘-directory’, we should follow your 
> suggestion and make it the primary and remove ‘—dir’ from the usage 
> output.
My comment on consistency was limited to the long option to specify the 
directory when extracting, didn't mean to suggest doing anything with 
the other tools that specify an output/destination directory. In any 
case, I think we have enough to make progress on this issue now.

-Alan