jextract to write classifies if a directory is specified with -o

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Javac does not support this feature. And, I think if it did, it would 
safe to assume that it would use a different option than -d, which comes 
with a significant JavaFileManager baggage. I'd probably see it more as 
a post-processing step which, after placing your classfiles in the -d 
folder, it would also generate a jarfile where you want it to be (to 
mimic how users typically do it by piping multiple shell commands).

On a related point, while javac doesn't have a 'jar' mode, the VM 
launcher does - and that option is called '-jar'. Any reason as why we 
can't reuse that name here?

Maurizio


On 07/03/18 03:42, John Rose wrote:
> +1  BTW, can javac emit its results directly to a jar?  If it did,
> what would that look like?
>
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 8:36 AM, Sundararajan Athijegannathan <sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if we should have -d (for directory) option for directory for output. That would make it consistent with other tools like javac. With -d, we can create directory if it does not exist.