Nikolay,
We are looking at this.
One aspect of the problem we have to take into account is that
currently, the JavaFileManager API does not special case the module
source path (yes, I know the *implementation* special cases it, even at
the handleOption level) and so we need to come up with a way providing
and specifying the functionality you are looking for in a way that fits
in with the overall design.
-- Jon
On 12/16/16 5:05 AM, Nikolay Chashnikov wrote:
Any comments?
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Nikolay Chashnikov <
nikolay.chashni...@jetbrains.com> wrote:
Hello,
we're actively working on support for Jigsaw in IntelliJ IDEA. Some time
ago we asked (see this post
<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-October/009713.html>)
about restrictions in --module-source-path parameter of javac command line.
It appears that currently javac has rather strict requirements regarding
layout of the source files of multi-module projects on the disk: module
sources must be located under a directory which name is equal to the
(qualified) module name, and locations of source directories for different
modules must follow some common scheme. It's ok for new projects, but it
complicates migration of existing projects to Jigsaw: you not only need to
create module-info.java files, get rid of split packages, etc, but also
most probably you'll need to rearrange directories containing the sources.
For me, the latter looks like an unnecessary complication, it may make
migration to Jigsaw more difficult, especially for big projects developed
by large teams. I think it would be great to allow users to specify
module-source-path for each module individually.
Given that the implementation (com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations.
ModuleSourcePathLocationHandler) already stores paths for different
modules separately, it seems to be rather easy to expose ability to specify
module-source-path on per-module basis to StandardJavaFileManager's API.
The change in API suggested by Jonathan Gibbons (see this post
<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-October/009781.html>)
looks good, it will allow us to support arbitrary layout of sources in
IntelliJ IDEA. Do you plan to implement it? How can we help you with that?
--
Nikolay Chashnikov
Team Lead
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