Re: jmod and jlink support

2018-12-05 Thread Craig Pell
Should I modify bootstrap.sh and bootstrap.bat to exclude the newer tasks if using a Java version less than 9? This is what the selector is supposed to do. No need to touch any of the scripts. One thing that I should have mentioned, the classes that require Java 9 must not live inside the taskde

Re: jmod and jlink support

2018-12-02 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi Craig On 2018-11-30, Craig Pell wrote: >>> Has there been discussion or a bug filed regarding adding tasks to >>> support jmod and jlink? Now that there is no longer a separate JRE >>> and the new method of distributing standalone Java applications >>> requires jlink, this seems increasingly

Re: jmod and jlink support

2018-12-02 Thread Gintautas Grigelionis
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 19:25, Craig Pell wrote: > Or am I misunderstanding the goal? Are you suggesting that future > versions of Ant should just be built with Java 9 (or later)? If so, > that would suggest that the "needs.jdk9+" selector is not needed, right? > I believe the goal is to compil

Re: jmod and jlink support

2018-11-30 Thread Craig Pell
Has there been discussion or a bug filed regarding adding tasks to support jmod and jlink? Now that there is no longer a separate JRE and the new method of distributing standalone Java applications requires jlink, this seems increasingly important. There is a deprecated jlink task for an ancien

Re: jmod and jlink support

2018-11-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi Craig On 2018-11-26, Craig Pell wrote: > Has there been discussion or a bug filed regarding adding tasks to > support jmod and jlink? Now that there is no longer a separate JRE > and the new method of distributing standalone Java applications > requires jlink, this seems increasingly importan