Hi, > The problem was not with the dependency per se. It was with getting JBurg > onto the user’s machine.
Which is done by code in the FlexJS release not the installer (it installer.xml file). The installer installs other Apache products ie the Flex SDK which don't have a dependancy on JBerg and don't have this issue. > If the installer was not “officially Apache”, we would not have needed any of > the discussion we had. Yes it still would of happened as Alex wanted to modify the FlexJS binary hosted at Apache without a vote. If the Flex JS Binary was external to Apache then probably not but we would still need to be a discussion around is it OK to have a blessed installer installing non blessed artefacts. If both the Flex JS Binary and Installer was external then sure but then they might as well be a fork and not part of Apache at all. There are still good reason for hosting convenience binaries at Apache: - User trust - they are produced at the same time from the source release and hosted at Apache - Infrastructure - bandwidth, security, mirrors etc - Simple to make release as both source and binary are checked in at the same time in the same place - The official release process encourages people to check what we're releasing 3 +1 votes and all that > This all seems very much in line with the official Apache policy that only > source is a release anyway. Since Apache doesn’t want responsibility for > installers and everything related (i.e. binary dependencies etc.), the > simplest solution is to keep that separation. At no point has ever said that Apache doesn't want responsibility for installers, the installer consists of source code just like any other Apache project, so not sure where you are getting that from. All Apache project have some means of installing and while that is usually maven or ant other projects do have installers as well (eg Open Office) So if I understand you correctly in order to not vote on stuff we want move both the Installer and FlexJS outside of Apache? That's basically a fork. Thanks, Justin
