Sounds like a plan!
+1
Thanks,
Om
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Christofer Dutz
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm currently sitting at the ApacheCon with Alex and weh ad a long
> discussion on how we could make it possible to release Flex SDKs to Maven
> Central. We have come up with a solution all should be happy with.
>
> The core of this would be to strip out any dependency to playerglobal and
> airglobal and to introduce new dependencies in GroupId
> org.apache.flex.thirdparty which are called "flashplayer.swc" and
> "airruntime.swc" which simply contains a 1 byte dummy swc which maven
> automatically uses.
>
> In flexmojos I would add a new mojo in the prepare phase of maven which
> checks which version of flashplayer.swc or airruntime.swc is referenced and
> check if "com.adobe.flashplayer.framework:playerglobal:{playerVersion}:swc"
> exists. I it doesn't it outputs the license agreement and asks the user to
> accept this. If he acccepts, the file is downloaded and deployed to
> "com.adobe.flashplayer.framework:playerglobal:{playerVersion}:swc" in the
> users local maven repository. As a last step the mojo adds a dependency to
> the build and coninues as usual.
>
> With these changes, we should be able and allowed to publish Apache Flex
> SDKs to maven central.
>
> If you have objections ... object fast as I'm going to start working on
> this right away ;-)
>
> Chris
>
