On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I have my doubts about the module system but I am not sure why you would > think multi-release jars will cause problems. > IIRC, multi-release jars causes problem in the Android tool chain. I imagine there are going to be a lot of catching up to do from a lot of vendors, tools and libraries. What a mess. Gary > Ralph > > > On Aug 9, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Jörg Schaible < > > joerg.schai...@bpm-inspire.com <mailto:joerg.schai...@bpm-inspire.com>> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Simon, > >> > >> Simon Spero wrote: > >> > >>> Compress HEAD is tested against the equivalent of RC. The main issues > >> were > >>> with tests; some types of mocking (especially of concrete classes) > don't > >>> work. This might have been fixed by now. > >>> I believe that the latest jacoco is 9 compatible. > >>> > >>> [The biggest problem was caused by a bug in the zip code handling a > >>> particular kind of timestamp; massive changes to the jdk implementation > >> of > >>> zip caused tests that had been passing (but shouldn't have) to fail > >>> properly.] > >>> > >>> NOTE: > >>> > >>> Adding a Module name manifest header asserts that the code is tested > >>> against Java 9. This is documented in the minutes of the armistice > talks. > >>> > >>> jigsaw modules are pretty useless for most of Commons (consumers pretty > >>> much have to shade dependencies). [ subliminal whisper about benefits > of > >>> having correct OSGI headers] > >> > >> OK, that means we should at least test those releases that contain a > Module > >> name now and silently assume, that the other stuff is not necessarily > >> compatible. Do we have an overview, which components were released with > >> such > >> a name? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Jörg > >> > >> BWT: I am also not convinced by the benefits of Java 9 looking at the > >> module > >> system or the multi-version jars. I fear they will rather harm the Java > >> ecosystem. > >> > > > > Very sad indeed. These are all "features" that break applications left > and > > right. > > > > Gary > > > > > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org <mailto: > dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org <mailto: > dev-h...@commons.apache.org> >
