Usage question

[Peter Levart]

On 09/27/2016 05:41 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
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> On 27/09/2016 15:45, Peter Levart wrote:
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>> Perhaps it is better to separate those two things. For convenience, 
>> there could be another option like --add-requires that would imply 
>> both --add-reads and --add-modules...
> We used to have --add-requires, the reason it was replaced by 
> --add-reads is because "requires" is pre-resolution and so involves 
> augmenting the module descriptor.
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> -Alan

I see. Well IMO, --add-reads should certainly not imply --add-modules in 
runtime. But in compile time it would probably be convenient. In that 
respect, --add-reads is similar to "requires static" a.k.a. 
provided-scope dependency in Maven. javac produces error if "requires 
static" dependency is not found, doesn't it?

Regards, Peter