Revised proposal for #AutomaticModuleNames

[Brian Fox]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:41 AM, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> I suspect what you really mean is "Never publish JARs that refer to
> automatic modules that do not have `Automatic-Module-Name` attributes".
> In general that's good advice.
>

+1 For me, the point of the attribute was to allow an intermediate step.



> It might even be reasonable for managers
> of artifact repositories to insist upon it, although I now understand
> that that could be problematic for a repository as popular as Maven
> Central.
>

We can look at encouraging it from the Maven side at least. Hard stops on
the repo can be a challenge as described previously.