Today we finally got the last blocking legal issue resolved and are now hunting
down executives to sign the appropriate documents to submit the source code for
MXMLC to Apache. The final signature has to come from a VP who is on vacation
this week, but we are going to try to get him to sign from where ever he is.
Yes, there is still some chance of a glitch in the approvals, but it is low
probability.
Then, of course, we have to get Apache Infra to do an SVN load of the code with
history. But Carol will probably check in code w/o history into her whiteboard.
There are some things related to this donation that you should be aware of:
1) We were unable to get clearance for any compiler tests. They were too
infested with stuff with incompatible licenses. So, those interested might
want to plan out how to verify compiler changes going forward.
2) CFF Font Embedding is not being donated. The source code is not under
control of the Flex team at Adobe. This means that you won’t be able to compile
@font-face(“somefile.ttf”); embedAsCFF:true
For now, you can use the JAR files from a full Adobe Flex release. You can
also use the fontswf utility or Adobe CS products to make a SWF with a CFF font
in it and embed from there. We will try to figure out a better solution later.
We decided not to delay the compiler donation for this issue.
3) We are also watching a discussion on the general@i.a.o list about binary
dependencies that will affect the MXMLC –services option. We will eventually
have the code for that when BlazeDS gets donated, but for now, we were going to
check in the jar file. We may need to write the equivalent code for this
capability as well until BlazeDS gets in.
Once the code is loaded into SVN, Carol will try to execute the steps of making
an Apache release. I expect it will take several attempts. And we would like
someone else to also try to be a “release manager” as Carol will be unavailable
during the week leading up to 360Flex. But once we think we have it figured
out, I think we can open all of the donated source for changes, especially for
the compiler if there are folks writing tests for it. Meanwhile I will be
working on getting Mustella donated. I am trying to find a clever way to get a
minimum amount of it donated by 360Flex. No promises though.
So, please try to reserve some time to participate in the release process, and
if interested, in creating a compiler test suite.
Thanks for your patience.
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
