[PATCH] 8218268: Javac treats Manifest Class-Path entries as Paths instead of URLs

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 02/28/2019 01:06 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 28/02/2019 20:58, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> Looking at the revised JAR specification, approved in [1], it is
>> disappointing that the spec contains text which is specific to
>> a JAR file being used in a classloader:
>>
>> |The resulting URLs are inserted into the search path of the class 
>> loader opening the context JAR immediately following the path of the 
>> context JAR. Any duplicated URLs are omitted.|
>>
>> That text would seem not to apply to javac and other tools that may wish
>> to process the class files in a JAR file.
> That should be fixed as it should apply at compile-time too.
>
> -Alan

|Agreed it might be good to fix it if possible. All the preceding text 
is good, and can be handled by javac. The only questionable bit is the 
text "Any duplicated URLs are omitted" which could be moved up a bit in 
the spec to a new paragraph, and maybe rephrased to use "ignored" 
instead of "omitted". If that were done, all the stuff about class 
loaders could be taken as non-normative text.

-- Jon

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