Hi Richard, I think a better list for this question is either core-libs-dev@ or jigsaw-dev@.
Thanks /Staffan > On 6 nov. 2015, at 12:11, Richard Callahan <rich...@lucentsky.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a specific question about the output from the Java Dependency Analysis > Tool (JDeps), released with Open JDK 8. Thank you very much for such a > marvelous tool! > > I am parsing the output from JDeps with the “-v” flag set, such that a call > to JDeps produces all class-level dependencies among and within a set of JAR > files in a directory. Consider a graph G constructed from the JDeps output, > with the nodes represented by classes and the edges represented by vertices. > My question is, if a specific JAR file in the directory (call it A.jar) can > compile using OpenJDK with the other JAR files in the directory designated as > dependencies, then does there always exist at least one subgraph G’ of G that > corresponds to the dependency relationships that would be actually used by a > Java compiler to compile that JAR file? If the answer is “yes,” then I > believe I should be able to recover that graph by starting with the set of > classes in A.jar and constructing the subgraph G’ in a manner similar to that > used by a depth-first search. > > If this post is to the wrong mailing list, I beg your pardon, and thank you > for your time! > > Best, > > Richard