On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:41 AM, <mark.reinh...@oracle.com> wrote: > I suspect what you really mean is "Never publish JARs that refer to > automatic modules that do not have `Automatic-Module-Name` attributes". > In general that's good advice. >
+1 For me, the point of the attribute was to allow an intermediate step. > It might even be reasonable for managers > of artifact repositories to insist upon it, although I now understand > that that could be problematic for a repository as popular as Maven > Central. > We can look at encouraging it from the Maven side at least. Hard stops on the repo can be a challenge as described previously.