> On Oct 27, 2016, at 4:20 AM, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We have a lot changes in the jake forest. I need to bring some of the changes 
> that aren't tied to JSR issues into jdk9/dev to unblock others.
> 
> Specifically, I'd like to bring over the changes that are needed to allow 
> jlink to support linking of MR JARs. Steve has initial patches (there's a 
> separate thread reviewing that) but it needs more further work in jlink for 
> it to detect the version of java.base that it is linking into the target 
> runtime. That work will not merge if done in jdk9/dev without some of the 
> changes from jake.
> 
> I also want to bring over the changes to the derivation of the module 
> descriptor for automatic modules as jake has several fixes that aren't in JDK 
> 9.
> 
> In addition we have a new list method on ModuleReader in jake that people 
> working on tests for JDK 9 need in the main line. I'd like to bring over the 
> current implementation (we can iterate on it further in jake if needed).
> 
> The webrev with the changes that I'd like to bring over is:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8168789/webrev/

I looked through the changes.  The patch looks okay to me.

Mandy

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