modules without classes
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Nov 30 06:42:57 PST 2011
I was chatting with Peter Jensen about a problem he's seeing trying to
install some of our current jdk* modules that that only has a
module-info. It turns out the recent refactoring of the module
reader/writer code breaks this case as the index creation assumes that
the there are classes in the module directory. This is no longer the
case when installing a jmod file that doesn't have a CLASSES section.
I'll sort this out and add a test so that we catch this scenario but it
begs the question as to whether it make sense to have an empty classes
in the module directory or not? I think it should be okay to not require
it (if for no other reason that many zip tools don't tolerate empty zip
files anyway).
-Alan.
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