[Proposal] jlink plugin which replaces dynamic shared libraries

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/12/2018 18:21, Mandy Chung wrote:
> I also like this, stripping the native debug symbols, as a jlink plugin.
>
> Currently jlink does not support platform-specific plugin.   The 
> Plugin API will need
> to be extended to specific the supported platforms, for example 
> Plugin::isSupported
> and default to return true.   jlink will need to filter the plugins 
> when it finds the plugin
> providers.   You can update PluginRepository to do the filtering and 
> see if that covers
> all cases (I suspect so).
It might be simpler to move the plugin to src/jdk.jlink/linux/classes 
and create a module-info.java.extra to augment the module-info.java file 
in the build. If that works then it would reduce the build work to 
augmenting plugin.properties at build time with platform specific resources.

-Alan