It's tough to rehash issues. I don't want to re-open old discussions that go nowhere, yet, I still share David's concerns. Personally, I was very jealous :-) of the proprietary module.xml the initial jigsaw system had. I liked the XML way better and still do.
Cheers, Paul On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, David M. Lloyd <david.ll...@redhat.com> wrote: > Tools like Maven and JUnit are yet still having a difficult time coping > with the oddball module-info.java file. Can we just drop this thing and > let the layer provide metadata for the module? This way of defining module > metadata is clearly causing trouble. Reference: all previous arguments > from non-Oracle people over the last 5 years or so. > > So far none of our software actually functions with Jigsaw, and the > prospect is not improving. In the meantime the EG is alternately > completely dead or in a state of > we'll-register-your-issue-but-cannot-help-resolve-them mode. I'm highly > concerned. > -- > - DML >
