RFR: JDK-8158402 - jlink: should use regex for all pattern operations (--order-resources or --exclude-resources)

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/06/2016 20:45, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:

> Consistent use of PathPatterns for jlink, jimage and jmod options.
>
> —optionName=(regex:|glob:|<nil>)<pattern> ?? where <nil><pattern> => glob:<pattern>
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8158402/webrev/index.html <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8158402/webrev/index.html>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158402 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158402>
>
This look okay to me but two questions:

1. Do any of the usage resources need to be updated?

2. Does this introduce an inconsistency in the jmod tool in that 
--hash-modules takes a regex whereas --exclude takes a pattern that is a 
glob (at least by default, it could be a regex too if prefixed with 
"regex:").

-Alan