On 11/28/12 11:22 PM, "christofer.d...@c-ware.de"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> well regarding the Flashplayer ... is is actually needed during the build. Not
> for actually building the SWF, but more for running the unit-tests.
Rats, I hadn't noticed that you needed the Flash runtimes in Maven. It is
always the standalone projector debuggers? Or are there browser plugins?
There is definitely no way I can imagine Adobe allowing the runtime to be
downloaded without user acceptance, so I guess the maven plugin that accepts
the license will definitely be required.
>
> Ok ... I would then suggest that we decide a fixed url pattern in which I
> could build a tool to automatically download zip files of flash-runtime
> (player + playerglobal) and air-runtime (sdk containing airglobal) for the
> different versions and platforms. The tool would then deal with mavenizing
> them on the client side. What would be good though, if all the zips had the
> same structure. Especially the flashplayer did have multiple names in the
> different Flex SDKs it would be cool if they were all called "flashplayer" ...
> at least this would make my life a lot easier :-). In this case you don't need
> any poms at all ... after all writing a pom to download a zip-file that you
> need to unpack an process before you can use it's content doesn't sound very
> Maven like to me.
>
> Would this be possible?
Well, I would have to check with the runtime folks if we start messing with
the packaging they distribute. Right now I think you are talking about four
different downloads from the Adobe site (playerglobal, FlashPlayer, AIR SDK,
AIR Desktop Runtime). Can we leave it at those four?
Regarding their names, I would have to see if we can get permission to
change packaging names. I'm pretty sure I can choose folder names for
storing them if that helps. Would it work if Adobe had an .xml file
somewhere that mapped some id and version to the actual package names?
Since you say you could write a tool, that sounds different from the maven
plugin that is winning in the poll, is that true?
I'm not sure what you have to process in an AIR SDK after you unpack it. Do
you really need to put individual pom.xmls in the AIR SDK tree? IMO, they
are all interdependent. I don't think you should be mixing pieces from
different versions of the AIR SDK.
We are all Maven-ignorant at Adobe, so for any extra piece of work we have
to do, it will help you can explain how it will improve adoption of Apache
Flex.
Thanks,
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
