Be sure to test on Windows 7. It has an older version of PowerShell, so
some things that work in newer versions may not work there. I had the unzip
working on Windows 10 after a long day of wrapping my head around running
PowerShell from AIR. The next morning, I discovered that I had to redo it
because I was using a new API that wasn't available in the older version of
PowerShell.

- Josh

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <
nicholaskwiatkow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that was the direction I was going to go. Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In addition to MD5, the code the installer uses to unzip files can also
> > cause Error #1000.
> >
> > I came up with a solution for that using PowerShell that I posted on the
> > mailing list:
> >
> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flex-dev/201706.
> > mbox/%3CCADZSWG4j-DwOFUbFGrJaOZsXTgU1FfwmE9fJUP5
> > dnrgCGFkhLQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> >
> > I looked into MD5 with PowerShell, and from what I could tell from a
> quick
> > search, that should be possible too.
> >
> > - Josh
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <que...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Is anybody actually addressing the issues people have been reporting
> > about
> > > the installer and/or ANT script for Flex SDK 4.16.0?
> > >
> > > Right now I see two major issues that are preventing even people who
> are
> > > familiar with the SDK from doing installs :
> > >
> > >  - In the installer, selecting AIR 25.0 gives users a non-descript
> "error
> > > 1000".  This is due toe the md5 checking in the installer running out
> of
> > > memory
> > >  - Trying to install via ANT is also broken under Windows (any version
> of
> > > AIR SDK).  As packaged, it always errors because it tries to install
> the
> > > MacOS AIR SDK.  Additionally, the optional components that are
> currently
> > > hosted on sourceforge fail to download due to some SSL errors (I've
> > tested
> > > this with the latest java sdk and ANT build).
> > >
> > > The AIR installer issue will require us to rip-and-replace the md5
> > > calculation functions.  I've started looking at it, but I don't think
> it
> > > will be an easy feat.
> > > Fixing the ANT script for Windows trying to install the mac air dmg is
> an
> > > easy fix (but it will require us to do a dot release to push it out)
> > > The SSL errors are because sourceforge is using SANs on their SSL
> certs,
> > > and the current versions of ANT don't know how to read them to validate
> > > them.  This may be out of our control.  Anybody know if we can convince
> > > Adobe to either donate those chunks of code or at least to move them
> to a
> > > different host?  It looks like the code involved is OSMF, AFE, AGLJ,
> > > rideau and Flex-Fontkit.  The alternative to a different host is for us
> > to
> > > ignore SSL errors, but that could be potentially dangerous.
> > >
> > > If nobody is working on these, I can start to take a crack at them, but
> > > honestly, the installer is extremely fragile at this point and I'm not
> > > looking forward to even trying to figure out what is going on in there
> > > again.
> > >
> > > -Nick
> > >
> >
>

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