[jsr294-modularity-eg] superpackage files

[Eugene Vigdorchik]

Alex Buckley wrote:
> As for the location itself, you seem to be saying that it 
> should be based on the names of member packages, not the name 
> of the superpackage itself. Is that right? 
Yes, I think it would allow the IDE to determine if the class is visible from certain place without the need to specify where
super-package.java for that class might exist.
While a separate option for super-package.java is perfectly ok for invoking a standalone compiler, having the user configure the
location of all super package files in the IDE
will be too painful.

> If so, what  happens when unrelated superpackages each require 
> super-package.java to live in the same location? 
That would amount to having multiple superpackages declaration in one super-package.java. So super-package.java would be not about
declaring a single superpackage, but rather telling how a package is split into superpackages.

Eugene.