XML for module descriptor

[David Bosschaert]

Seems like there is at least a majority for going with JSON as a
format. I'm not an expert in encodings but to me it looks like it
could be solved in the same way as currently done for the MANIFEST.MF.
I'll start prototyping the JSON module descriptor in Penrose.

Best regards,

David

On 14 April 2012 09:08, Jeff MAURY <jeffmaury at jeffmaury.com> wrote:
> Even if the module file is using a specific encoding, the
> compilation/packaging of the jmod file can convert the file to the expected
> encoding just like what is done for .java --> .class files and probably
> what is done for MANIFEST.MF as well.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri <
> debasish.raychawdhuri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1. How do your java files specify encoding? Similarly we might try to
>> externally specify encoding in case it is not our default UTF-8 with some
>> form of -encoding option.
>>
>> 2. JSON can specify encoding if we modify the parser a little. I guess we
>> would have to find something with a license compatible with GPL. We can
>> modify it to read an optional first line { "encoding":"UTF-8",  if default
>> encoding is not used. But I still would prefer the external option being
>> passed to java compiler and java runtime.
>>
>> 3. The reason people do not complain about MANIFEST.MF being always in
>> UTF-8 is that people hardly ever try to have class names and package names
>> in non-ASCII characters, the encoding support for java files in mainly for
>> string literals.
>>
>> It certainly does not make sense to have a complex parser like XML parser
>> just because we want to support different encoding and we want the class
>> names, package names and module names in non-ASCII characters.
>>
>> --
>> Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
>> <http://www.geekyarticles.com/>
>>
>
>
>
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> Jeff MAURY
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