On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

> If someone wants to make these changes, I won’t object, but IMO, Google
> Closure Library changes often, usually for the better.  Bundling will tie
> a FlexJS release to a particular version of GCL and that may not always be
> desirable at this point.


>From what I have seen, GCL is used behind the scenes by the FlexJS
compiler, i.e. there is no way for the user to do anything directly with
GCL.  I am not sure what advantage we get by getting the latest GCL library
all the time.

I believe tying a FlexJS release to a particular version of GCL is a good
thing.


> I believe we have the option of changing the
> installer so it downloads GCL without asking for license approval as well.
>
>
That does not solve the problem of the FlexJS installation failing.  The
GCL download step can still fail, which seems to be happening a lot.

Thanks,
Om


> -Alex
>
> On 7/30/15, 4:26 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <mark.kessler....@usmc.mil>
> wrote:
>
> >+1
> >
> >-Mark
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 8:40 PM
> >To: dev@flex.apache.org
> >Subject: Re: [FlexJS] FlexJS installation - bundle Google Closure Library?
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >> Since Google Closure Library is also Apache licensed, can we package it
> >> with the binary release instead of having the Installer download it
> >> separately?
> >
> >+1 and also any other MIT or BSD licensed stuff. Mean will have to make
> >some minor mods to NOTICE/LICENSE but it's straight forward.
> >
> >Justin
>
>

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