HAHA! It runs!

[Neil Bartlett]

> On 8 Dec 2015, at 18:39, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Stephane Epardaud <stef at epardaud.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Finally I was able to run my Ceylon modules in Java9!!
>> 
> 
> Congrats Stephane!
> 
> 
>> [1] ATM I can compile them with Java 9 but not as modules, I generate
>> the module-info.class from the JBoss Modules descriptor. I can generate
>> a module-info.java from it and then make javac compile them as modules,
>> which I'll do in the future.
>> 
> 
> I am happy to hear this too. I've been waiting for the first person to
> generate the module-info.java from their own source/configuration. This is
> what I suspect most build tools will be seeking to accomplish in the future
> -- but I just wasn't expecting the future to arrive so fast!

I suspect a more common approach will be to generate module-info.class directly, skipping the Java source file, since module-info.class is extensible whereas module-info.java is not.

Neil


> 
> Cheers,
> Paul