Robert (?) wrote this page [0] about supporting MR-JAR files.

There're several approaches to the topic. It'd be nice, if the compiler- and
the jar-plugin would pick one by default or based on a directory layout
convention.

[0]:
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/multirelease.html

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:26 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've been thinking about multirelease jars. First step is source layout.
> Here's a strawman modeled after the jar layout.
>
> We add a versions directory to the existing src directory. Inside the
> versions directory one can have directories named 9, 10, 11, etc. for each
> major Java version that has custom code. Each numbered directory is a full
> src folder that contains main, test, etc.
>
>
> Can anyone poke holes in this? Is there a reason why this wouldn't suffice?
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
> [email protected]
>

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