"""error: module testng reads package test from both test and testng"""

[Martin Buchholz]

Mandy, thanks for the investigation.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:38 PM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> The testng.jar version I had bundled with jcommander classes and hence the
> error message reports com.beust.jcommander.* packages from jcommander and
> testng module.  It was an old version before testng was mavenized.   If I
> run jtreg with the testng and jcommander downloaded from maven, the test
> passes.
>

Right.  maven and jigsaw are both opinionated "module" systems.  Modern
testng and jcommander mavenized jar files are cleanly separated, from
maven's point of view.


> Jon, Jan,
>   I think the javac error message could be improved to make it clear that
> the package is split in multiple module.   In addition, the test only
> contains explicit modules.   It's strange that the javac reports that "the
> unnamed module reads package xxx from ....".  I will create a JBS issue on
> improving the error message.


Yes, this message is very confusing.