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

forax at univ-mlv.fr forax at univ-mlv.fr
Wed Nov 16 10:20:22 UTC 2016


yes !

Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Alan Bateman" <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>, "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 16 Novembre 2016 11:13:44
> Objet: Re: jlink option --add-modules should be renamed to --add-root-modules

> 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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