Specifying module paths

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 01/14/2016 12:30 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
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> On 01/14/2016 12:14 PM, Robert Scholte wrote:
>> Igor Fedorenko says: "This is a very good proposal. My only 
>> suggestion is to extend javax.tools CompilationTask API to take 
>> modulepath map as in-memory parameter. Not a big deal, but it'll be 
>> silly to write properties file to disk for it to be immediately read 
>> by the code executed in the same jvm." 
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> Generally, javac has been converted to use java.io.file.Path 
> internally and to allow use of java.io.file.Path in API signatures. 
> Therefore, if you can provide a Path for an object in an in-memory 
> file system, you're good to go, with no additional changes from javac.
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> -- Jon
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Typo:  of course, I intended to write java.nio.file.Path

-- Jon