On 20/11/2017 21:56, Gunnar Morling wrote:
I see, thanks for the clarification.
It's a pity, though, I hoped to employ that approach for providing a
custom jlink plug-in (implementation of
jdk.tools.jlink.plugin.Plugin). So it seems that's not possible until
jdk.jlink exports j.t.j.plugin? Are there any plans to do so some time
soon?
Even if it was marked as experimental/incubating, being able to
provide custom jlink plug-ins would enable interesting use cases.
There was interest in creating an incubating module in JDK 9 but it was
put aside due to the issues of tool modules depending on an incubating
module. The other issue is that most of the interesting plugins to date
do code generation at link time and are deeply tied to specific areas of
java.base and other core modules (they can't really live outside of the
jdk repo). So while it might be desirable to expose the interface for
plugins, I think it will need further exploration to see if it makes
sense or not.
-Alan
