So: although there is no urgent need or benefit from making Aalto use Java 9 or later (currently Java 11), it would be useful for some users if Aalto did have full Module info settings, above and beyond automatic module name.
This should be possible using Moditect:
Note: included in 1.2.0, but may want to do 1.2.1 to add dep to stax2-api with proper module info too (1.2.0 depends on version with Automatic Module name which may be ok)
So: although there is no urgent need or benefit from making Aalto use Java 9 or later (currently Java 11), it would be useful for some users if Aalto did have full Module info settings, above and beyond automatic module name. This should be possible using Moditect:
https://github.com/moditect/moditect
as long as we build using JDK 8.