Proposal (revised): #VersionsInModuleNames

[Remi Forax]

So am i.

Rémi

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> De: "Robert Scholte" <rfscholte at apache.org>
> À: jpms-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net
> Envoyé: Vendredi 24 Mars 2017 10:20:08
> Objet: Re: Proposal (revised): #VersionsInModuleNames

> Hi Mark,
> 
> I like these adjustments.
> 
> thanks,
> Robert
> 
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:15:24 +0100, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Issue summary
>> -------------
>>
>>   #VersionsInModuleNames -- Some have argued that library maintainers
>>   will be tempted to encode major version numbers, or even full version
>>   numbers, in module names.  Is there some way we can guide people away
>>   from doing that?  [1]
>>
>> Proposal
>> --------
>>
>> Based on extensive feedback, from EG members and others, make two
>> changes:
>>
>>   - Abandon the current proposal [2] to mandate that module names used
>>     anywhere in source-form module declarations both start and end with
>>     "Java letters".
>>
>>     (This restriction was never implemented in the prototype RI.)
>>
>>   - Revise the algorithm that computes the names of automatic modules so
>>     that it preserves digits at the end of module names [3].  The name
>>     for `commons-lang3-3.0.jar`, e.g., will now be `commons.lang3`.
>>
>>     (Whether that algorithm is changed in other ways, or automatic
>>      modules are abandoned altogether, is the subject of the separate
>>      #AutomaticModuleNames issue [4].)
>>
>> In order to discourage the encoding of version numbers in module names a
>> Java language compiler may issue a lint warning when a module with such
>> a name is compiled, but whether or not a compiler does so is beyond the
>> scope of this specification.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#VersionsInModuleNames
>> [2]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2016-December/000516.html
>> [3]
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/spec/api/java/lang/module/ModuleFinder.html#of-java.nio.file.Path...-
>> [4]
> > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#AutomaticModuleNames