If I could assist you in any way, I would be glad to help, if the result would be an official Adobe Maven Repo.
Chris ________________________________________ Von: Alex Harui [aha...@adobe.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2012 17:51 An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Flex Maven FDK Generator RC1 I don't think the issue is that Adobe changes licenses for a particular version after you accept it, it is that if you want to upgrade to a newer version, you may need to accept a new license. The simpler I can make this, the better chance it has of happening. -Alex On 10/17/12 3:28 AM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Currently If I accept the Adobe license an download a FDK and Adobe decides to > change the License details after me downloading it. There are no means to > force me to accept the changed license. Same would apply to the szenario of a > Adobe-Nexus which is accessed using username and password. My Artifactory > would be configured to use that login when fetching stuff from Adobes Nexus > and I would be able to use everything in an automated build environment ... My > Artifactory server would fetch stuff it needs from Adobe automatically using > the login I provided it with. If Adobe changed the license details all > accounts would be disabled preventing my Server to fetch stuff untill I accept > the changed licenses and my account is re-activated. Then everything should > run smoothly untill the next license change. > > I think this approach would eliminate the need for Adobe to build something > entirely new and simply use a standard Nexus and eventually develop a custom > Plugin for registering and re-activating user accounts. The effort for Adobe > would be minimal, but the benefit for developers would be at a max. > > Chris > > > ________________________________________ > Von: Alex Harui [aha...@adobe.com] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 21:28 > An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: Flex Maven FDK Generator RC1 > > On 10/16/12 12:11 PM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de" > <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: >> Maven doesn't provide the means to stall a dependency resolution and prompt >> the user for accepting a license. The only thing you could do is to protect >> access to the repository. > It looks like the antrun plugin would allow me to use ant to prompt the > user. Haven't tried it yet. > >> One way you could simuplate this would by by starting any turnkey nexus or >> artifactory server. There you could deploy some artifacts and configure the >> repo not to allow anonymous access. >> Now someone would need a login in order to fetch the libs. You could link the >> process of creating an account to accepting the licenses you want. As soon as >> someone creates a new account and accpts the licennse agreement, the nexus >> account is created and the user could use this account to access the >> artifacts. >> > I'm not sure that would be sufficient for Adobe. For example, we altered > the license between Flex 4 and Flex 4.5. A login wouldn't let you pick up > that change. > > Maybe Apache Flex or Adobe could provide a plugin to show the licenses like > we do in the installer and additionally, remember which ones you accepted so > that subsequent builds can be unattended. > > -- > 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
