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

[Brian Pontarelli]

On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:

> 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.

You also have sealing of packages, package versioning (in the manifest) and annotations, like you mentioned. So, not 100% part of the type system, but part of the platform for sure.

-bp