RE: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-03 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
Normal git installs on windows would work. Let's avoid a Cygwin requirement. -Mark -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 3:27 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer I thin

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 1:02 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. >While it's license may not matter it could depends on what it puts into >the swf? May effect the LICENSE/NOTICE files. The CrossBridge compiler just generated ABC code but uses GCC to do it. Do

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 1:02 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > >> I thought we'd given up on Linux installer in favor of ant. >So that would require us to check the MD5 hashes on Linux another way? The Ant script does the on Linux. > >BTW are we currently using this for MD5 checks? >https://github.com/mikechamber

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Roland Zwaga
FZip has since become as3commons-zip: http://as3commons.org/as3-commons-zip/index.html On 2 June 2014 22:07, Justin Mclean wrote: > HI, > > Perhaps this is an option? I like the sound of "parses ZIP archives > progressively" - which implies non blocking UI to me. > http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fz

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
HI, Perhaps this is an option? I like the sound of "parses ZIP archives progressively" - which implies non blocking UI to me. http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/ License compatibility would need to be checked. Justin

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. While it's license may not matter it could depends on what it puts into the swf? May effect the LICENSE/NOTICE files. > Good question about NativeExtension. Does the installer only run on Intel > CPUs? Would IMO be reasonable to assume th

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. It will be a compiler pre-requisite just like Adobe Extension Manager. I did use the sample code that is MIT licensed to build the md5 swc. I'm checking with Adobe legal on the rules for that code. Good question about NativeExtension. Does the i

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I think it is worth adding CrossBridge as a build prerequisite to the > Installer. CrossBridge seems to be MIT licences [1] but doesn't contain a license file that I can find. I notice it also includes other licensed software which may not be Apache compatible, they include libpng, libjpe

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > I think you misunderstood. Cygwin is only needed to build the installer, > not use/run it. > > Ah okay. Then no objections from my side. It is reasonable to expect the Release Managers to have Cygwin installed. Thanks, Om > Workers won't

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
I think you misunderstood. Cygwin is only needed to build the installer, not use/run it. Workers won't help. It may leave the UI as responsive, but you still have to wait several minutes for the checksum to be completed. MD5 is totally async in the installer today. What isn't is the unzip. It

RE : [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread webdoublefx
can make it indeed, if not, workers are still a good possibilty IMO Envoyé depuis un mobile Samsung. Message d'origine De : OmPrakash Muppirala Date :02/06/2014 20:07 (GMT+00:00) A : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Inst

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > As you may have seen, I've added a bunch of MD5 checksums to the installer > in hopes of detecting bad downloads and reporting them to the tracker so > we can see if bad downloads is the root cause of many of the install > failures that have be