On 11/13/17, 11:34 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>> The binaries are not created by first creating the source package,
>> unpacking it and compiling it.  You were a Flex SDK RM at least once,
>>did
>> you not understand what you were signing?
>
>Every time I made the release I made it from the source on my local
>machine on a clean tagged branch. I understood 100% what I was signing
>(for instance see [1][2]) and write most of  the scripts to do help make
>builds [3][4] and contributed a lot to the wiki on the instructions on
>how the build the SDK. [4] I was a Flex SDK RM 1/2 dozen times probably
>more and more than a dozen releases in this project.  So I have no idea
>why you would say “did you not understand what you were signing?” and IMO
>that was uncalled for.

Because it sounded like you didn't understand how the build scripts worked.
>
>>  I'm not sure there is a workaround to convert those files back
>> to UTF8 or not. 
>
>Even if you did find a way it would likely change the md5s and make the
>signatures invalid as converting to UTF8 modifies the file by adding a
>byte order mark at the front of the file.

A workaround of converting the files back to UTF8 before compiling would
have nothing to do with md5s and sigs.

-Alex

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