Any comments? On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Nikolay Chashnikov < nikolay.chashni...@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > we're actively working on support for Jigsaw in IntelliJ IDEA. Some time > ago we asked (see this post > <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-October/009713.html>) > about restrictions in --module-source-path parameter of javac command line. > It appears that currently javac has rather strict requirements regarding > layout of the source files of multi-module projects on the disk: module > sources must be located under a directory which name is equal to the > (qualified) module name, and locations of source directories for different > modules must follow some common scheme. It's ok for new projects, but it > complicates migration of existing projects to Jigsaw: you not only need to > create module-info.java files, get rid of split packages, etc, but also > most probably you'll need to rearrange directories containing the sources. > For me, the latter looks like an unnecessary complication, it may make > migration to Jigsaw more difficult, especially for big projects developed > by large teams. I think it would be great to allow users to specify > module-source-path for each module individually. > > Given that the implementation (com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations. > ModuleSourcePathLocationHandler) already stores paths for different > modules separately, it seems to be rather easy to expose ability to specify > module-source-path on per-module basis to StandardJavaFileManager's API. > The change in API suggested by Jonathan Gibbons (see this post > <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-October/009781.html>) > looks good, it will allow us to support arbitrary layout of sources in > IntelliJ IDEA. Do you plan to implement it? How can we help you with that? > > -- > Nikolay Chashnikov > Team Lead > JetBrains > http://www.jetbrains.com > The Drive to Develop > -- Nikolay Chashnikov JetBrains http://www.jetbrains.com The Drive to Develop
