[External] : Re: provides and requires static ... runtime error

[Josiah Noel]

I see, I believe I fully understand your concerns. It makes the module
version of ServiceLoader a lot less useful to me, but I see your main
hesitation.

In your scenario, Y is
> pulling double duty, which makes it harder to understand overall, and
> you'll benefit a lot more from breaking it up than from a more relaxed
> module system.
>

Perhaps I'm looking at it from the wrong angle, but from a
maintenance perspective, I'm not really seeing the benefits. Say you have 5
artifacts that provide an optional service for X, to support the
module-path we now need to maintain 10. It also makes it somewhat
cumbersome to add the extra dependencies to use them all with X.

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