Java Modules v2.x

[nhojpatrick]

Hamcrest future

Following on from #204 start thinking about how packages need to be refactored and what is simple or what would need to be done in a major version release.

[sf105]

Do you have any concrete ideas?

[nhojpatrick]

• basically each jar needs a module name

• map what jars depend upon what jars and add those requires

• all classes that should be publicly available to users need to be exported

• move all internal classes out of the publicly exposed packages

• create test jar to execute hamcrest functionality

• build on java 7 or 8

• execute on java 9 just using modules path and not classpath and see what warnings appear

• fix warnings or update dependencies declared

• back to step 2 and repeat till no warnings

[nhojpatrick]

Will also need to check all dependencies being used, see if they have a java 9 version yet, or java automatic module name yet, maybe raise issues or pull request with down stream dependencies so they are aware hamcrest would like to support java 9 and see when they plan to.