Re: modulepath spec

2015-12-07 Thread Gregg Wonderly
Will there be a recursive Jar: content mechanism so that there can be a single file object representing an entire application and all of its dependencies? Gregg Wonderly Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 7, 2015, at 10:46 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > >> On 07/12/2015 17:18, Stephane Epardaud wrote: >

Re: modulepath spec

2015-12-07 Thread Paul Benedict
To summarize, I have thus far seen these two needs on the list: 1) The need to specify a list of jar modules by name. This is to support identifying what modules out of a set need to loaded. An example use case would be the "target" directory of a Maven project, where more than one module artifact

Re: modulepath spec

2015-12-07 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
On 12/07/2015 11:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 07/12/2015 17:18, Stephane Epardaud wrote: Hi, When there is a -modulepath argument, is it a path in the Unix sense? With a list of File.pathSeparator-separated folders? Ceylon produces `.car` files instead of `.jar` files, but they're really zi

Re: modulepath spec

2015-12-07 Thread Alan Bateman
On 07/12/2015 17:18, Stephane Epardaud wrote: Hi, When there is a -modulepath argument, is it a path in the Unix sense? With a list of File.pathSeparator-separated folders? Ceylon produces `.car` files instead of `.jar` files, but they're really zip files like jars. Will Java examine the file t

modulepath spec

2015-12-07 Thread Stephane Epardaud
Hi, When there is a -modulepath argument, is it a path in the Unix sense? With a list of File.pathSeparator-separated folders? Ceylon produces `.car` files instead of `.jar` files, but they're really zip files like jars. Will Java examine the file type to determine that it's a zip file, or will i