On 13/01/2016 16:55, Paul Benedict wrote:
With multi-release JARs, there is a directory structure to partition out
the class files for the destined versions of the Java runtime.
With modules, the module-info.class sits in the root of the JAR.
How will these two requirements be reconciled? Are there plans such as
allowing module-info.class in each version folder too? It is quite
conceivable a module will require dependencies in one Java version; yet not
for another.
If dependences are significantly different then it might be pushing the
boundaries on multi-release JARs a bit. In any case, it is tracked as
JDK-8146486 to look at after JEP 238 has settled.
-Alan
