Automatic modules and jpackage

[Mark Raynsford]

On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 15:51 -0500, Alexey Semenyuk wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Good to know you've sorted out the issue. I replied to your email
> last 
> week, but didn't send it to the right recipients and it got lost.
> Resending once again just in case:
> 
> If you want your app's modules in app directory, you can specify 
> external runtime to jpackage with "--runtime-image" cli option. In
> this 
> case jpackage will not run jlink and compile in your modules. Instead
> it 
> will copy your modules in "app/mods" directory.
> You can run jlink before running jpackage and create a runtime you
> want. 
> Or you can simply pass $JAVA_HOME as an argument to "--runtime-image"
> cli option.

Thanks!

> 
> PS Would you mind updating 
> https://blog.io7m.com/2023/11/10/batch-files-are-your-only-option.xhtml
>  
> page with the solution? jpackage is not a dead end 😉 and it will 
> support WiX v4.

Yep, way ahead of you... :)

https://blog.io7m.com/2023/11/27/batch-files-are-not-your-only-option.xhtml

I look forward to WiX v4 support. Setting up WiX v3 to work in a CI
setting is a bit rough at the moment. v4 is far easier to set up, but
obviously not supported yet (they've removed/renamed various
executables, as you probably know).

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