jlink option --add-modules should be renamed to --add-root-modules

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Nov 16 10:13:44 UTC 2016


On 16/11/2016 09:53, Remi Forax wrote:

> Hi all,
> it's a minor request, but the option --add-modules should be renamed to --add-root-modules because as the doc says it specifies the "Root modules to resolve". Several students of mine had trouble to see the difference between --add-modules and --module-path because of that (and yes they should have read the doc).
>
--add-roots was suggested at one point. In any case, the options needs 
to be consistent (we can't rename the option in jlink without also 
changing it in javac and the java launcher for example).

-Alan


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