+1 On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
> 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. > -- Best Regards, Ali Ebrahimi
