2018-02-05 21:02 GMT+01:00 Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>: > On 2018-02-05, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: > > > Houston, we have a problem: JPMS explicitly forbids broken packages. > > Ant's jar can never be Java9 modules. If we wanted them to be modules, > we'd have to move classes and seriously break backwards compatibility. > > Fortunately there is no reason for the jars to become modules. >
Suppose an application (say, an IDE) would like to have all components on module path rather than classpath. Well, for now I'll remove the automatic module name from jars that cannot be made into modules without breaking BWC. That way we will know better what to expect eventually. Gintas
