On May 19, 2014 11:28 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> I believe we don't know if the failure rate is lower with 2.7.  It could
> simply be the same, especially if folks are getting as far as antlr, gcc,
> or some other third-party download before it fails.

I meant bringing the old Installer back for the Flex SDK installation and
using the new Installer for FlexJS.  Until we sort this out.

That's the funny
> part, for all of these failures, we are not getting as many complaints as
> I would expect.  I also plan to revisit the logic that dispatches the
> failure URL to make sure we aren't sending false negatives.

That would be good too check, for sure.

>
> So, IMO, the best option is to try to make Installer 3.1 report failures
> with more information about what failed.

The only thing I can think of is attacking the console log.  Would that
work?

Another suggestion is to retry
> if we get stream errors, or even try hosting the config.xml files in other
> places or on a CDN.
>
> I am also hoping to get 4.12.2 and FlexJS 0.0.2 out soon.  We could add
> checksums to the third-party downloads in those install scripts but I
> think we've seen Adobe upgrade the downloads on occasion and then we'd get
> unnecessary failures until we found out.  Maybe there is some job we could
> run to watch for changes.
>
> Thoughts?

I can add the console log tracking right away if you are okay with
releasing that as 3.0.1.  Works?

Thanks,
Om

> -Alex
>
>
> On 5/19/14 10:59 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Should we perhaps revert back to the earlier version of the Installer
> >while
> >we investigate this?  Or are you sure that debugging and fixing FlexJS
> >installs would take care if the 4.12.1 SDK installation as well.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Om
> >On May 19, 2014 9:06 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> >> At least two folks are currently struggling to get FlexJS installed
> >> properly.
> >>
> >> In the next installer we should try to provide more info on where it
> >> failed.  If you have time to work on that, please do, otherwise I will
> >>get
> >> around to it.
> >>
> >> -Alex
> >>
> >> On 5/19/14 12:25 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> >I think the problems I was having were related to the Website
> >>contianing
> >> >the BlazeDS libs being insanely slow (Using the browser the page took
> >>up
> >> >to 10 Minutes to show).
> >> >This problem should have an effect on any installation. Also have I
> >> >noticed this poor performance beeng the regular mode of operation of
> >>that
> >> >server.
> >> >We could avoid this problem by releasing Apache BlazeDS and switching
> >>to
> >> >that. The Apache Servers should be able to handle the load.
> >> >Same with some of the libs. I have noticed the Ant scripts download a
> >>lot
> >> >of libs from project-servers. These tend to go offline now and then. I
> >> >would suggest to download these from Maven Central instead, as this
> >>will
> >> >probably even be online after the world explodes ;-)
> >> >
> >> >Chris
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >________________________________________
> >> >Von: omup...@gmail.com <omup...@gmail.com> im Auftrag von OmPrakash
> >> >Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com>
> >> >Gesendet: Montag, 19. Mai 2014 09:18
> >> >An: dev@flex.apache.org
> >> >Betreff: Installer failure rate is way to high
> >> >
> >> >Here is the break down for the last 30 days:
> >> >
> >> > /track-installer.html?label=Apache Flex SDK
> >> >4.12.1&version=4.12.1&os=windows
> >> >1,458
> >> >/track-installer.html?version=4.12.0&os=windows
> >> >1,105
> >> >*/track-installer.html?failure=true&label=Apache Flex SDK
> >> >4.12.1&version=4.12.1&os=windows*
> >> >821
> >> >/track-installer.html?label=Apache Flex SDK
> >>4.12.1&version=4.12.1&os=mac
> >> >505
> >> >/track-installer.html?version=4.12.0&os=mac
> >> >375
> >> >/track-installer.html?version=4.12.1&os=windows
> >> >363
> >> >*/track-installer.html?failure=true&label=Apache FlexJS
> >> >0.0.1&version=0.0.1&os=windows*
> >> >350
> >> >/track-installer.html?label=Apache FlexJS
> >>0.0.1&version=0.0.1&os=windows
> >> >190
> >> >/track-installer.html?label=Apache Flex SDK
> >> >4.12.0&version=4.12.0&os=windows
> >> >98
> >> >/track-installer.html?version=4.12.1&os=mac
> >> >92
> >> >Any ideas how to address this situation?  Should we push a new release
> >> >with
> >> >more tracking (perhaps the install log)?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Om
> >>
> >>
>

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