Jigsaw prototype, take 2

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/8/28 15:50 -0700, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:27 PM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I've created a new forest, http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jigsaw/jake, where
>> we're going to explore a simplified approach to achieving the goals of
>> this Project.
> 
> Simplified how?

That's partly answered in the very next paragraph:

  Among other things, we're going to see whether we can get away without
  introducing a distinct "module mode" as we have in the current prototype
  (which is incompatible, in some narrow yet deep ways, with long-standing
  behavior) and without doing dependence resolution (since build tools like
  Maven, Ivy, and Gradle already do that well enough).

That is, I admit, somewhat cryptic.  I'm writing up a longer note that
will explain the background and the new approach in more detail.

- Mark