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From: Om <bigosmallm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:06:10 -0700
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Subject: Re: InstallApacheFlex badge installer
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Tomasz Maci=C4=85g | Fuse Collective <
t.maciag@fusecollective.com> wrote:

> Can you modify the action button(install) click to just navigate to the
>> "appURL" instead of invoking the airSWF api?  This would trigger a
>> download
>> for the installer and the user can just open the downloaded file for the
>> installation to begin.
>>
> I've updated badge. You can switch mode in HTML to download (navigate to
> the "appURL") or install (works the same as before). That works for you?
> Right now it works with navigateToURL but I could change it to
> FileReference solution.
>
> Thanks Tomasz!  I will give it a spin today.  One last requirement is - w=
e
will need to auto detect the os (mac vs. windows) and navigate to the
correct URL - .dmg vs. .exe

Right now, we dont have a .dmg build up on my site.  Can someone using a
Mac run the ant build and attach the .dmg file to the JIRA ticket?  I can
post it up on my site alongside of the .exe build.


>
>  After seeing the
>> feedback we are getting regarding the confusion caused by the .AIR app,
>>
> BTW. what kind of confusion was there? I think I missed that...
>
>
On Macs, the AIR SDK download is a tar file.  The Fzip library we are using
does not uncompress these files.  So, just on the Macs, we are using the
NativeProcess api to invoke tar natively and untar the file.  Because of
this, for Macs, we have to package and distribute the app as a native
installer.  No such issues for windows, because the AIR SDK is available as
a zip file.

Native installers cannot be installed using a badge installer.  There is no
need anyways, because the badge installer is mostly a utility to seamlessly
detect and install the AIR Runtime along with the app.  But since we are
packaging the app natively, we are shipping the AIR runtime with the app
itself (captive runtime)

Messaging this distinction between installers across operating systems
seems to be confusion prone.  Hence I thought ditching the AIR file and
badge installation would make it easier for us and for end users.

But I really like the concept of the badge installer.  I plan to put out a
very simple html snippet that anybody can include in their blogs, websites,
facebook, linked in, etc.  This would help spread Apache Flex better.  And
the badge installer looks very cool, so why not use it ;-)

Thanks,
Om

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