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

[Ron Pressler]

> On 22 Apr 2023, at 23:05, Rob Bygrave <robin.bygrave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Ron: I’m guessing that what’s bothering you isn’t so much the number of *modules* but the number of JARs. So I think a more general solution than adding a way to describe “this service is conditional on the presence of X” would be to allow multiple modules in a single JAR that would contain both Y and the X-Y-plugin. 
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> How would this solve the issue? I can't see how having a second module on the same jar/artifact would work for this case. 

See Josiah’s email and my response to him.

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> Bearing in mind this library needs to support both classpath and module-path. 

Since we don’t yet have multi-module JARs, the question of how it would be used on the classpath is TBD. However, one possible approach is to treat a multi-module JAR on the classpath as if each module was in its own JAR, and all of them were placed on the classpath.

— Ron