Jigsaw prototype, take 2

Tang Yong tangyong at cn.fujitsu.com
Thu Aug 29 20:58:46 PDT 2013


 > 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.
Looking forward to seeing the note very much!

Best Regard!
Tang

mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

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