Hi, I checked into flex-utilities the beginnings of a new library that could eventually allow us to emulate most or all of Ant in AIR. The plan is to use this in the Apache Flex Installer going forward. IMO, if we can script the install in a .xml file, then the Apache Flex Installer will need many fewer releases, hopefully only to make bug fixes, and that will simplify the release process for the various release packages we're going to be having going forward such as the Flex SDK, Falcon, and FlexJS.
Please take a look and let me know if you like it or not. Each XML tag is represented by a separate AS class so it should be easy for folks to pitch in with new tag support. I've only implemented a few tags so far. Many more are needed. Thanks, -Alex