I think Justin is suggesting that we store more of the installer intelligence on the server. Justin, do you see a copy of the installer scripts live on the server, ready for us to manipulate without a VOTE? I like that suggestion, it would separate the interests of the various part even better (i.e. “product” vs. Installer).
I would suggest NOT making the process any harder for the user (“chain a few installs”); the Installer is a wonderful tool and we should use it to make the life of devs easier, not fall into the OS trap of “giving people choice” - they have all the choice they could want by running the build scripts. EdB On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 10/9/14, 5:21 PM, "Justin Mclean" <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote: > >The second requires it being added to the SDK install scripts. This is a > >little problematic in that the steps are part of each SDK release in the > >dist area. I'm assuming we can't we change the contents of those without > >VOTEing on a release. > > > >Wouldn't it be better to separate these steps from the release area and > >store in the web site content like the other installer files? (eg > >/installer/<productname>/<version>/config.xml) so that when things > >change, like > >- License terms or our understanding of those terms change > >- Extra optional components are added > > > >We don't have to re-release packages involved? > > Are you suggesting that we change the install experience for 4.13.0 and > older releases? One advantage of having all of the steps in the ant > script is that our Linux users (and anybody else who doesn¹t or can¹t run > AIR) get a rough command-line equivalent. > > I think what you want to do is just chain a few installs together as in > ³Hey, you¹ve installed A, would you be interested in installing B² or do > you envision something more tightly integrated? Teaching the installer to > chain might be useful, although again, what would we do for our Linux > users? > > -Alex > > > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
