Intersection of Modules and Multi-Release JARs

[Paul Benedict]

Thanks Alan. A poor-man's solution may be optional module dependencies.

Cheers,
Paul

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> On 13/01/2016 16:55, Paul Benedict wrote:
>
>> With multi-release JARs, there is a directory structure to partition out
>> the class files for the destined versions of the Java runtime.
>>
>> With modules, the module-info.class sits in the root of the JAR.
>>
>> How will these two requirements be reconciled? Are there plans such as
>> allowing module-info.class in each version folder too? It is quite
>> conceivable a module will require dependencies in one Java version; yet
>> not
>> for another.
>>
> If dependences are significantly different then it might be pushing the
> boundaries on multi-release JARs a bit. In any case, it is tracked as
> JDK-8146486 to look at after JEP 238 has settled.
>
> -Alan
>
>