Why package deps won't work (Was: Re: Converting plain JARs to Java modules)

[Rémi Forax]

On 11/15/2011 03:13 PM, Brian Pontarelli wrote:
> I'm not at a computer to reply properly, but a few things about packages that come to mind are:
>
> - package visibility
> - package-info.java
> - the Package class
> - package versioning
>
> Yank these out, specifically package-private visibility, and packages are just names.  Otherwise, it seems to me that they are part of the type system.
>
> Sent from my iPad

No apart the package visibility that impact the type system,
all other items are just here to provide a way to put/get annotations on 
package
thus are not part of the type system.

Rémi