Module descriptions versus module descriptors

[Stephane Epardaud]

On 10/12/15 09:34, Ali Ebrahimi wrote:
> I wonder why ceylon had chosen module.ceylon for module descriptions
> (and not stayed with module.xml files). 

Because we generally don't need build tools just to compile modules, so
it made sense to treat modules as part of the language itself, along
with what tooling can do for it: completion, type-safe annotation of the
module descriptor, etc…