Automatic module names

[Paul Benedict]

Yes, Stephen is correct. This is true. And as Robert Scholte of Maven
pointed out, he still needs to support JRE 6 as the minimum. Lots of OSS
projects still target 6. I think we should give them a little help in this
area.

Cheers,
Paul

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>
wrote:

> On 10 March 2016 at 07:58, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> > Keep in mind that a compiled module-info can be added to a JAR file where
> > the code is otherwise compiled for an older release. If you are willing
> to
> > tolerate a newer JDK in your build environment then you can compile that
> > code with `javac -release N`(see JEP 247 [1]). This means one JDK in your
> > build environment with the build creating a JAR file that you can deploy
> on
> > the class path with JDK N or newer, or as an explicit module with JDK 9
> or
> > newer. It is of course a more complicated build but something that a
> > "forward looking" developer could do.
>
> Joda-Time compiles for JDK 1.5, other Joda projects for 1..6. Last
> time I looked, the tool didn't go back far enough to be useful.
>
> Stephen
>