OpenJFX JMOD Files

[August Nagro]

> I don’t see that as a problem as new versions can be uploaded as
required.

Don't you think it would be an issue if Oracle decided to change the JAR
format from ZIP to something else?

I agree with the rest of your reply though.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:16 PM August Nagro <augustnagro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't recommend publishing JMOD files on maven central since the file
> format is not yet stable (based on zip currently, but ideally will change
> to better compression in the future). JMOD seems to be 'unfinished
> business' from JPMS.
>
> Ex,
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44732915/why-did-java-9-introduce-the-jmod-file-format#comment76578978_44736159
>
>
> I've also found that for some reason building modular FX applications with
> jlink + JMOD files produces significantly bigger runtime images than with
> the SDK.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM Matthias Bläsing <
> mblaesing at doppel-helix.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Johan,
>>
>> I was in a similar situation for JNA (Java Native Access) and found,
>> that sonatype accepts other package types than jar/javadoc/sources.
>>
>> To support opening JNI libraries, the native parts need to be packed
>> differently. This packaging is an "aar" (Android Archive). I did not
>> ask sonatype, but just modified the upload, to include the aar together
>> with the primary jar, javadocs and source.
>>
>> You can see for the jna library itself:
>>
>> https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/java/dev/jna/jna/5.1.0/
>>
>> JNA uses the maven deploy plugin with the deploy-file goal and uploads
>> the files together (from the ant build script):
>>
>>     <artifact:mvn failonerror="true">
>>       <arg
>> value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy-file"/>
>>       <arg value="-Durl=${maven-snapshots-repository-url}"/>
>>       <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-snapshots-repository-id}"/>
>>       <arg value="-DpomFile=${pom}"/>
>>       <arg value="-Dfile=${dist-jar}"/>
>>       <arg
>> value="-Dfiles=${maven-sources-jar},${maven-javadoc-jar},${dist-aar}"/>
>>       <arg value="-Dtypes=jar,jar,aar"/>
>>       <arg value="-Dclassifiers=sources,javadoc,"/>
>>     </artifact:mvn>
>>
>> Maybe that helps
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2018, 20:36 +0100 schrieb Johan Vos:
>> > I got the use case. I think it should be possible, although in general
>> > uploading to the OSS sonatype repository requires uploading jars for the
>> > classes, sources and javadoc. There is no procedure yet (afaik) for
>> > uploading mods, but we can see if that works.
>> >
>> > - Johan
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:20 PM Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is there a reason not to make the jmod files available as artifacts on
>> > > Maven Central?
>>
>>