On 11/08/2016 05:50, Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran wrote:
Hi Alan,
I also need a clarification on the following passage in JEP 261:
/"In large systems the source code for a particular module may be
spread across several different directories. In the JDK itself
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/201>, e.g., the source files for a
module may be found in any one of the directories
|src/<module>/share/classes|, |src/<module>/<os>/classes|, or
|build/gensrc/<module>|, where |<os>| is the name of the target
operating system. To express this in a module source path while
preserving module identities we allow each element of such a path to
use braces (|{| and |}|) to enclose commas-separated lists of
alternatives and a single asterisk (|*|) to stand for the module name.
The module source path for the JDK can then be written as/
/|{src/*/{share,<os>}/classes,build/gensrc/*}|"/
While the first sentence states spread across several directories,
later on it states ' /may be found in any _one_ of the directories/'.
Does "any one of" really mean "any of" ?
Can you please confirm that it is indeed possible to specify multiple
directories at once for a specific module.
Jon would be the best person to answer this but "yes", the module source
path specify multiple directories using this syntax. That is, the source
code for a module may be in distinct directories. We have this in the
JDK because there are platform specific classes, also a lot of source
code generated at build time.
-Alan
