RFR: 8316804: Gracefully handle the case where --release is not specified last [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:37:12 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> @AlanBateman @LanceAndersen do you think this proposal is OK?

Right now, the section in the man page for --release $N is when creating a MR JAR.

Using --describe-module with --release $N is a useful combination as I might have a module-info.class in a versioned section. We'll need to update the man page to allow this.

I don't understand the combination of --validate and --release $N. This option is documented (in the usage output) to validate "all different release" and I don't think can be restricted to a specific version. The man page doesn't document --validate so we should fix that.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22079#issuecomment-2556914115