On 10/01/2015 10:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 24/09/15 12:00, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I would like to see Fedora to revisit its stance on the Class-Path
> attribute and eventually require that all JAR files in /usr/share/java
> have one.
Eventually we'll have the Java module system. I can't see the point of
changing this now.
How will Fedora deal with conflicting JAR files? This has been brought
up as a counter-argument to using Class-Path attributes, after all.
“
If the module system cannot fulfill a particular dependence with an
artifact from a module path, or if it encounters two artifacts defining
modules of the same name but different versions in some directory of a
module path, then resolution will fail and the compiler or virtual
machine will report an error and exit.
”
<
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/sotms/>
This suggests to me it is not possible to have a single, system-wide
module path. And if applications still need to collect the module paths
of all their dependencies, we face a problem similar to constructing the
class path today.
Florian