On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > I don't know anything about Debian packaging, but I'm not clear how this > helps the Apache Flex community, so I'm not thinking this would be a > priority. However the source is open and you are welcome to run your own > build script to generate whatever it is you need. And we'll try to answer > questions.
Thanks About xerces it seems that we could drop the patch. You only need it in order to get line number information. By overriding setDocumentlocator you could get a locator object and then call locator getLineNumber() method. Could you confirm ? Bastien > I believe we take some version of Batik and Velocity and inject some > changes to it. There isn't an official document, but the changes or > modified files are in our repository. Examine the build scripts to see > what is being done. Better yet, if you have the time and motivation to > propose changes to Batik and Velocity so we can have our changes applied > to the latest versions or, more likely, change Batik and Velocity so our > needs can be more of a plug-in/add-on, that would benefit Apache Flex and > we would be more inclined to switch to more recent versions of those > libraries. It just isn't a priority for us at this time. > > Regarding not using player global, it might be worth verifying that the > Flash/AIR runtime licenses don't place restrictions on how you build your > SWFs. > > -Alex > > On 4/15/14 9:16 AM, "Bastien ROUCARIES" <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>Le 15 avr. 2014 17:42, "Tom Chiverton" <t...@extravision.com> a écrit : >>> >>> On 15/04/14 16:36, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>>> >>>> Some part of LaTex use flash in order to include video in pdf >>presentation. >>> >>> OK, and this component is already being distributed, but can't advertise >>it's dependency on Flex because Apache Flex isn't in Debian ? >> >>No we should remove it because de do not build against source. It ils our >>social contract. >>> So I don't see why you need to make a Debian-ised Apache Flex made up of >>lots of other dependencies ? I don't expect Apache Flex will work well >>with >>updated third party libraries, which is why we have the installer script. >>> >>> So an Debian wrapper around the existing Ant-based install scripts is >>probably the way forward. >> >>No it is against our social contract and constitution. We do ont want to >>remove about 20 packages si the only alternative is to get flex or a part >>on it under debian. >> >>Bastien >>> >>> Tom >
