modules and bootclasspath

Jonathan Gibbons Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM
Tue Dec 15 14:31:38 PST 2009


Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:34:48 -0800
>> From: jonathan.gibbons at sun.com
>>     
>
>   
>> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>     
>>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>       
>>>> -- does it make sense to allow bootclasspath as a sort of implicit override of
>>>>    the default platform requirement?
>>>>         
>>> Not sure what you mean here.
>>>       
>> I'm not sure if it makes sense, but what I was meaning was if someone provides
>> a bootclasspath, that could be taken as subverting the need for a default
>> platform dependency being added to any module-info files.
>>     
>
> This shouldn't be an issue, since the JRE will always be running either
> in modular mode or in legacy (i.e., classpath) mode.
>
> - Mark
>   

I had javac in mind, not the JRE ...

-- Jon



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