java.bytecode (or similar) module?

[dalibor topic]

On 14.11.2017 11:38, Remi Forax wrote:
> Hi Volker,
> the easy anwser if the JDK do not include all packages of ASM 

Yeah - Generally speaking, this is a way to reduce the potential 
maintenance surface of baked in libraries, since they are baked in for a 
specific, internal reason, rather than to be exposed externally.

In addition, as part of baking in a (part of a) third party library, 
you'd typically want to change the package names to eliminate the 
potential for conflicts on the classpath/modulepath, which makes it not 
very useful to expose as a public API (it was 
org.openjdk.org.objectweb.asm at one point in time for the internal 
ASM), as it requires users to adjust their code to work with the 
'internal' version, rather than the actual one.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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