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From: Om <bigosmallm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:32:49 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Discussion] Implementing a dedicated maven-flex-plugin
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Eugene Krevenets (aka Hyzhak) <
hyzhak@yandex.com> wrote:

> It's good news. Where you plan to share New Maven Plugin sources? As i
> mentioned before, it's better be a github, because it's easy to pull
> request to it. Thank you for your contribution to community.
>
>
It would be best if the source code is directly contributed to the main
Apache Flex repo.

There is a github mirror for Apache Flex here:
https://github.com/apache/flex for those who are interested in using
github.

Thanks,
Om


> 07.11.2012, 20:32, "christofer.dutz@c-ware.de" <christofer.dutz@c-ware.de
> >:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as most of you probably know, I'm currently working on a tool to
> generate Mavenized FDKs. In parallel I am adjusting Flexmojos to support
> the new Apache FDKs so people can build Flex applications using Maven.
> >
> > So far so good. After finishing the Generator and adjusting Flexmojos to
> all of my changes, the last step was to generate the 4.8 FDK using the
> maven group id org.apache.flex instead of com.adobe.flex.
> >
> > Now this introduced MAJOR problems. Currently you could use Flexmojos
> with 4.8, if you compile the entire Plugin against the group id of apache
> or you could use the adobe fdks after compiling it against the adobe group
> id.
> > The main reason is that otherwise Maven imports two versions of the jars
> (the one of the FDK you want and the one Flexmojos was compiled against).
> >
> > Sorting this out would be a total nightmare as there are really magical
> hacks working inside the build which cause any change in the scopes of
> dependencies to blow everything up.
> > I guess this is because Flexmojos includes insanely much code for
> supporting legacy FDKs (back to 2.0 FDKs) and a ton of different tools for
> different parts of the build lifecycle.
> >
> > My question now would be if it would not be better to officially leave
> Flexmojos to be compiled against com.adobe.flex and to include an option in
> the generator to generate the Apache FDKs to the Adobe namespace and to let
> users be happy with that and use it.
> >
> > In parallel I would volunteer to start work on a new plugin aimed at
> apache flex, but leaving away support of the Adobe FDKs. I would suggest to
> concentrate on the main path, supporting only apache fdks, only flexunit
> 4.1 for unit-testing, only the newest granite code generator and so on. In
> this case this should be a manageable task, even if it will take a while.
> As soon as the Version 1.0 is out we could start extending this to support
> more stuff our users would need. I think continuing to add more and more
> code to Flexmojos will only make it an unmaintainable monster whith all the
> problems comming from that.
> >
> > As I mentioned, I would volunteer to start such a thing and I think
> using Flexmojos as an inspiration on how to possibly implement something
> like that it should be manageable.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Chris
>
> --
> Best regards.
>
> Eugene Krevenets. Software Engineer of Realaxy.
>
> Blog: http://anykeytocreate.blogspot.com
> Code: http://hyzhak.github.com
> linkedIn: http://me.linkedin.com/in/eugenekrevenets
>

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