Aliases

[Alex Buckley]

On 9/12/2012 12:03 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at Oracle.COM>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am somewhat skeptical; currently lacking the imagination to come up
> with some viable concrete cases.

Two modules called 'jdk' from Oracle, representing different update 
releases; and two modules called 'sdk' from IBM, representing different 
update releases (or whatever the terminology is over there). All these 
modules would provide 'java', ideally @ 8.

> How would selection of one vendor other another work? I guess (as
> Alan mentioned to me) some form of policy would be required (and it
> could be a pre-filtering step of the module graph).

Unknown at this time.

Alex