jmods-less jlinking prototype

[Ron Pressler]

> On 14 Mar 2023, at 10:36, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> The Problem:
> ------------
> Why do we need the 'jmods' directory when running jlink when 'java --
> list-modules' lists all the modules and all the files from the JDK
> build are in <install/location/of/jdk> (only 'jmods' directory is
> missing)[1]?

Hi.

The way that’s stated it looks like the problem you’re trying to solve is of a JDK tool that stops working when you delete some JDK files. Is the actual issue reducing the JDK’s size? If so, can you give some more motivation for why reducing the size — not of a runtime but of an SDK — by ~80 MB or 25% is something worth doing given that the solution is not entirely trivial?

— Ron