Progress report on SLF4J project modularization

[Patrick Reinhart]

Hi David,

I tried to port your approach to apply to the SLF4J Project, but due my lack of Maven experience it was doomed to fail. Seems, that a small contribution would be very welcome :-)

Cheers Patrick


> Am 24.03.2017 um 19:28 schrieb David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com>:
> 
> On 03/24/2017 12:41 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> The initial phase of SLF4J project modularization in preparation for
>> Java 9/Jigsaw went well. I ran into many wrinkles most of which were
>> due to my own ignorance about Java 9 modules.
>> 
>> You can see the results at
>> 
>> https://github.com/qos-ch/slf4j/tree/1_8_0-SNAPSHOT
>> 
>> Now that the initial phase of modularization is done, I looked at
>> creating mutlti-release jars for the SLF4J project. However, after
>> having spent 2 full days on trying to get Maven to do multi-release
>> jars, I am giving up without having made any measurable progress.

I know how to create the module info, only the maven part I’m not really the expert…

> 
> Hi Ceki, we came up with an approach that works for us (though it's a bit cumbersome).  See: http://word-bits.flurg.com/multrelease-jars/
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