Aliases

[Alex Buckley]

On 9/11/2012 11:23 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at Oracle.COM>
> wrote:
>> But modules from completely different vendors with completely
>> different names should be able to provide the same alias. This will
>> seem reasonable if you think of aliases as they were originally
>> conceived: "virtual" modules, able to be implemented by any number
>> of physical modules.
>
> I think that is OK, that rule needs clarification w.r.t. libraries:
> two such vender-based modules cannot be present in a library.
>
> Do you think there will be cases that two such modules would need to
> be present in a library?

I can imagine multiple modules from vendor A providing the "java" alias, 
and multiple modules from vendor B providing the "java" alias, installed 
in the same library, yes.

Alex