[External] : Re: Could we have --exclude-modules option?

[Andrejus Chaliapinas]

> Are they third-party dependencies of your application, or fourth-party?

It's a mix of both

> Also, what did their maintainer say when you pointed out the existence

> of split packages, and how they make it difficult to use the JARs as

> automatic modules?

Well, I'm not sure everyone is buying importance of Java modules usage with extra headache involved. So I expect some of those to continue be just old Java8 jars unless some Java 18+ will deprecate classpath usage completely, which I doubt.

> When you're faced with code that's aggressively unmodular, it seems

> attractive for the JDK to come swinging to the rescue with a power-user

> command-line option to tweak the environment just so. But these options

> accumulate in scripts (and then get forgotten about)...

In this case it's not a tweak, but similar functional parity with Maven where we could do flexible exclusions. There were lot of approaches of Classloaders filtering in Java8 cases and I don't see why we cannot have similar here.

Andrejus