No Maven itself and the JDK are required to use Maven at all. Usually it's not the normal Maven way to force you do deploy a lot of essential libraries manually.
I am not saying that it's not possible to manually deploy the artifacts, it's just something that would easily avoidable. If Adobe has no objections deploying it would make life for all a lot easier. And I particularly found this step (Adding the playerglobal to my systems environment variables) in the compilation of the Apache SDK rather strange. Chris -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012 16:24 An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: time to help test the release candidate On 6/28/12 12:34 AM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > I thought about this problem for quite some time yesterday. > > Regarding the adt.jar and Air integration. I think the best solution > would be to split up the flexmojos maven plugin to have a separate flex and > air module. > The current mixture does have some disadvantages. In case of Flex > being shipped without AIR even more. Will it still be possible to > build an Air application using Apache Flex? Yes it will. Are build tools like a JDK also managed by Maven or are they a "prerequisite"? The latter is what we are saying for the Ant scripts. You have to download the platform build tools including playerglobal. > > Regarding the fontkit. I think I'll have a loot at what it is used for anyway. > If the Apache Flex SDK can do without it, perhaps it's usage is some > legacy functionality, which I could make optional. I could immagine > that this is related to one of the several ways how fonts can be > embedded in Flex. I guess it would be ok that if a user tried to use > one that depended on fontkit, that Flexmojos could issue an error > complaining about the missing fontkit implementation. Fontkit is required to embed fonts for Spark. I am hopeful we can replace our dependency on it as I think all it does is convert other font files to CFF format. > > Currently I don't have any problems getting my handy on a version of > fontkit and adt, but they are not part of the SDK and currently > Flexmojos uses that exclusively and I don't want to add hard-coded > deps to those missing libraries (They are all available im Maven Central ... > so this wouldn't be a problem). > > Chris > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012 19:01 > An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Betreff: Re: AW: time to help test the release candidate > > > > > On 6/27/12 9:36 AM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" > <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> > wrote: > >> While velocity is no problem. I simply added a new dependency. More >> troubeling is the absence of adt.jar and flex-fontkit.jar. >> Without these I will not be able to build Flexmojos. Are they not yet >> donated to Apache, or is refactoring Flexmojos better in this case? >> (Eventually Breaking Backward compatability). > Adt.jar is part of the Adobe AIR SDK and will not be donated. > Flex-fontkit.jar relies on font processing code used in many Adobe > products and is not going to be donated. > > The build script require Adobe AIR SDK as a pre-requisite. The > scripts give you the option of downloading an Adobe Flex SDK and using > the flex-fonkit.jar within. >> > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
