Please stop incrementing the classfile version number when there are no format changes (original) (raw)

Luke Hutchison luke.hutch at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 16:25:48 UTC 2019

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 9:14 AM Luke Hutchison <luke.hutch at gmail.com> wrote:

I am considering switching to automatic module naming to solve this for once and for all

On closer examination, this is not possible, because the manifest file format does not support an "Add-Requires:" property. Why is there "Automatic-Module-Name:" and "Add-Exports:" but not "Add-Requires:"? Allowing a manifest file to include any and all information that may be contained in a module descriptor would increase backwards compatibility for libraries built to work on both the module path and the classpath. (Specifically I need to require several system modules that are protected from reflection by encapsulation in JDK 9+, as well as java.xml and java.logging.)

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