On 5 December 2015 at 09:49, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > Yes, that's right, there is enough to support all the scenarios. The > use-guava-if-it-happens-to-be-there scenario is somewhat awkward though as > it would means using -addmods. On the other hand, the > use-guava-if-someone-hands-me-a-guava-type scenario is straight-forward, it > just means reading the module at run-time (easy).
However taking a step back, in order to support this type of release, command line flags are not an option. Since Joda-Beans is an OSS library, developers need to be able to "just use it". Telling developers that if they use this library they have to add a complex command line flag at runtime is simply not on. To me, the answers have identified a clear need for optional module dependencies in the jigsaw design, such that key information is not lost. Stephen
