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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:49:38 -0700
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On 5/22/12 5:41 AM, "christofer.dutz@c-ware.de" <christofer.dutz@c-ware.de>
wrote:

> I allready feared that there could be problems with legal issues in
> distributing the runtimes. I guess the only solution would be do publish =
the
> tool to enable people to generate their own SDK versions (including the f=
lash
> players and playerglobals).
I'm open to trying to see if Adobe can create artifacts for the Flash and
AIR SDKs.  I have no idea of what it would take.

>=20
> Flexmojos is not only a link between Flex and Maven, but integrates sever=
al
> other tools, that make it extremely valuable:
> - Apparat Integration to optimize the SWFs and SWCs
> - GraniteDS to automatically generate the ActionScript model classes from
> their Java counterparts.
> So simply integrating the basic compiler feature would strip a lot of it'=
s
> functionality.=20
What percentage of users are using this functionality?  Might be best to hi=
t
the sweet spot and have everything else be optional?

> It would be great however if the compiler would could be called
> directly instead of having to go the way of simulating the commandline ca=
ll.
What would that look like?
>=20
> I know that Flexmojos still has quite some issues, but most of the Issues=
 I
> had to resolve were mainly related to problems in the Flex compiler code =
(Just
> to mention one: Try using ASDoc with code comments containing the "@"
> character ;-) ). I toally agree that the general perspective should be to
> integrate the functionality of flexmojos into Flex, or at least have them
> maintained by the same group, but I think the current SDK has far too man=
y
> issues that should be adressed first.
The Adobe SDKs are important to folks and you are welcome to do what you ca=
n
with them.  This thread is about the Apache Flex SDKs and we have more
flexibility.

> Trying to create a new Maven integration
> layer would just add more to the todo list. So for now I think it would b=
e
> great to work together. I would be glad to contribute to make Flex work
> better.=20
Make sure you get the IP issues resolved and we'll be glad to have your
contributions.

> As soon as the main issues are resolved I would also be glad to help
> you create something similar or to integrate flexmojos to flex.
>=20
> I'm also not requesting to change flex in any way to make mavenizing the =
sdk
> easier.=20
Earlier you said the current SDK has far too many issues.  What are these
issues and how do we address them without changing Flex?

> Currently I was only suggesting to clean up the structure of the SDK
> to more reflect the parts natures and to generate some helpfull other stu=
ff
> that makes life of people using it a lot easier:
> - Generate a special pom containing only dependencyManagement section. Th=
is
> can be imported into other maven projects to automatically set the versio=
ns of
> the sdk artifacts.
No idea what that means, but by all means, show us what needs to be done.
> - Generate a special jar containing metadata that can be used by flexmojo=
s to
> perform validation (minimum SFW-version, minimum playerglobal version, et=
c.).
> Just to name a few.
If this would be useful if we Apache had its own mapping to Maven, then fee=
l
free to show us what needs to be done here as well.

--=20
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui