My thinking was to move any installers and the like over to Github and they would be completely removed from the release process. The releases would be source-only.
Putting up builds with AIR (and the like) rolled in could be a nice plus. On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > The way I understand it, the proposal is to kinda “fork” the installer on > occasions where a non-Apache binary distribution solves a problem. Or maybe > it would just be a way to host a binary that was created using the regular > Git ‘develop’ branch. > > Did I get that right? > > EdB > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> So what exactly goes in this flex-extras repo? >> >> Thanks, >> Om >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >>> I would definitely recommend that the MD5 and ASC hash/sigs be co-located >>> with the artifacts. >>> >>> BTW, I still have plans to create a separate business entity that, among >>> other things, will distribute Flex and FlexJS binaries that are >>> essentially how Adobe distributed SDKs: AIR/Flash will be packaged in >> it. >>> No install necessary. Just unzip and point your IDE at it. >>> >>> I have to get clearance from Adobe before I do it, and just have been too >>> swamped to do it, but my hope is that it will cut down significantly on >>> failed installs since, once you get a package that unzips there will not >>> be anything else to download and potentially fail. >>> >>> -Alex >>> >>> On 10/23/14, 7:33 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <mark.kessler....@usmc.mil> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The only reason I bring this up; some people verify the package has not >>>> been modified if getting it from another source. >>>> >>>> -Mark >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:00 AM >>>> To: dev@flex.apache.org >>>> Subject: Re: Convenience Binary Policy >>>> >>>> I think that's up to us. >>>> >>>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Kessler CTR Mark J >>>> <mark.kessler....@usmc.mil> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I like the idea so far. Would there still be hashes / signatures on >>>>> the non-official releases? >>>>> >>>>> -Mark >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Ix Multimedia Software > > Jan Luykenstraat 27 > 3521 VB Utrecht > > T. 06-51952295 > I. www.ixsoftware.nl
