Several build-tool maintainers have pointed out (e.g., [1]) that it's
inconvenient to have to arrange for a set of modular JAR files to be
placed in, or appear to be placed in, a particular directory of the
module path. It would instead be more convenient if the names of the
JAR files themselves could simply be included directly in the module
path, just as they are included in the class path today.


[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-December/005582.html