On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
> On 20 September 2017 at 17:12, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Von: Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> > >> I've not got maven to work with actual module-info.java files yet on > >> the Joda projects, but they are a more complex setup. Maybe > >> [collections] could be the first to get a real module-info? There are > >> no dependencies, right? > > > > There are test dependencies. > > > > And I wonder how we can create a jar that is also valid on JVM 7 and 8. > Do they ignore the module-info.class which would be included? Or do we have > to create a Multi-Release jar? The build will definitely require Java 9. > > I've not managed to get this pattern to work on my projects yet: > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/ > examples/module-info.html > > There should be no need for a multi-release jar - the > module-info.class file will just be ignored (not class loaded) by > previous versions even though it is in the jar file. > One reason NOT to do this now is that other tools will see this class file, try to load it, and blow up, as I've seen with Android tools :-( Gary Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
