New feature: Ability to pass options to javac

[Andrew Marrington]

JMake should allow the user to pass options to javac.

[Jason Weathered]

Or, we could just add a command line parameter (such as the industry standard "-" (that's a single dash)) to indicate that everything following the dash on the command line signifies parameters to be passed directly to the sub-processes without modification.

[Andrew Marrington]

I don't know about using a - since the options being passed to javac will be using a -, and we want to differentiate JMake options from javac options.... maybe another character... maybe -- (two dashes)?

[Jason Weathered]

Maybe I should have provided an example. Usage would be like:

jmake all - -deprecation

So anything before the - goes to jmake, anything after gets passed to the relevant subprocess (javac, javadoc, jar, etc). Many apps on linux use a syntax like this (although I cannot think of a specific example at this time).