Legacy mode

Rémi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Sun Sep 11 14:27:23 PDT 2011


On 09/11/2011 10:54 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Rémi Forax wrote:
>>
>> I was hoping that modules was a solution to avoid re-packaging.
> I don't think we want to get into mapping package names. Instead the 
> right thing would be to re-visit those places where it was previously 
> necessary to incorporate third party libraries to see if they make 
> sense as modules now.

but you can't convert them as module because you need the re-packaging 
to support legacy mode.

>
>>
>> Why -Xbootclasspath doesn't make sense ?
>> It's a fast way to patch what you want.
> It's doesn't make sense in module mode because the boot class path 
> goes away. 

it's a tautology. You don't need it because you don't need it :)

> Once we have the modulepath support in then it should make it easy 
> without needing to installing a module.

The module path is the way to find a module before looking it in the 
module system.
Patching just one file should not require to declare a module or the 
whole module
you perhaps need also the module-info but not more.

>
> -Alan.

Rémi




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