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

[Jaikiran Pai]

On 14/03/21 6:21 pm, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.

I'll sending the man page content that I have been working on, shortly 
and will then go ahead with changing the PR to incorporate some of the 
feedback received in this discussion.

-Jaikiran