Since version 0.10.9, kwik requires the automatic module `io.whitfin.siphash`

[harrharr]

Up to 0.10.8, kwik used the modularized fork of siphash from io7m-com. Version 0.10.9, however, upgraded to the latest version of the original project, which is not modularized yet. By convention, modular artifacts requiring automatic modules should not be published to maven central for various reasons (breaks jlink/jpackage builds, for example) and the java compiler issues a warning ("requires directive for an automatic module").

Fortunately, this is not a problem for our project (see this readme), but other modular projects using kwik may be forced to stay with 0.10.8.

[ptrd]

I proposed to make it a proper module (whitfin/siphash-java@4ebf457), but for some reason the author decided to transform it to an automatic module whitfin/siphash-java@9ecae58.

I requested again to make it a proper module, see whitfin/siphash-java#6. Let's see if the author is willing to do so, if not I will revert back to io7-com.

Thanks for making me aware of this issue, I didn't realise automatic modules cause that kind of trouble.

[harrharr]

Since the original project is targeted to Java 8, it's impossible to make it a jigsaw module. The author could create a multi-release jar, but it's probably better to ask the author of io7m-com to merge the changes from the original project and upgrade the fork to 3.0.0. Or you could provide your own fork?