OK, good to know. I had never checked to see if Maven put things in the SWC to be managed in the Maven Central. But again, the Ant build does not currently generate all of the collateral files (checksums and sigs for each SWC) and, IMO, it is easier just to call Maven to do that.
While we're on the subject of "reasonably equal", one thing that is not a requirement but I want to point out is that the "mvn clean install" in royale-asjs takes significantly longer thant "ant clean main" even if all dependencies are already downloaded because currently, Maven produces a SWC for every flavor of the Jewel themes where Ant does not because a bare .css file is a valid theme in Flex/Royale. I think there is a way to have a bare .css file as a valid Maven artifact. And figuring that out might make the Maven build faster. Food for thought, -Alex On 3/21/20, 8:57 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Alex, In general there should be nothing preventing Maven to use the SWCs built by ant too. The additional stuff I mentioned is in the Jars, not the SWCs (perhaps in the JS SWCs) and in these there is just a copy of the pom and the values of any property during execution. Both are not used or needed by any program I know of. Just consider them Meta-Data. They are mainly used for tools like Nexus to know where to put them and if you were to sort of find a jar in some directory know how to reproduce it. Chris Am 21.03.20, 16:46 schrieb "Alex Harui" <[email protected]>: On 3/21/20, 8:19 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote: Well in theory the jars in the compiler built by Maven should also work with Ant and the other way around and also should it be possible to use the SWCs build by Maven with Ant. Did you mean "It should be possible to use the SWCs built by Ant with Maven"? That's true, but the Ant scripts do not do that currently and I see no reason to have them do that, because as you mention below, Maven puts more stuff in and around the jars/swcs. It is easier for Ant to call Maven to do that. For example if I build the distribution with maven and use that in an IDE I have seen the IDEs use the Ant targets (which were built with Maven) with the SWCs (which were also built by maven) without any problems. We need to ensure the files are "reasonably equal" (it doesn't break anything for ANT if the jars of the Maven build have additional static stuff in "META-INF" package, but the interesting stuff like all the class files and resources should be identical) Agreed. Bonus points if the RM verification has a smart compare of the Jars and SWCs (by unpacking them and comparing the actual class files or SWFs.) Chris Am 21.03.20, 16:08 schrieb "Alex Harui" <[email protected]>: That's a good starting point, but I don't like the "should". I think it is a "must", otherwise, we can release broken functionality. The Ant release artifacts must be reproducible by Ant and the Maven release artifacts must be reproducible by Maven. It isn't sufficient to say that the "build" works in the released sources. Release artifacts are more than just the build output. Ant or Maven users may need to test a binary release artifacts/package with their local changes, not just the individual jars/swcs. To be picky, only the Maven artifacts need to be usable by Maven, and only the Ant artifacts need to be usable by Ant, although I'm assuming that's what you meant. HTH, -Alex On 3/21/20, 2:20 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I would like to use this thread to collect some requirements for the release process. Also would I like to ask you not to formulate things like “The release artifacts must be built with X” but rather “The release artifacts should be usable by X” cause that’s what really matters. I hope you get what I mean. So far I have this: * The release artifacts should be usable by Maven * The release artifacts should be usable by Ant * The release should include tests, which ensure the correct function of the royale-maven-plugin * The release should include tests which ensure the correct function of the Ant targets * It should be possible to verify a release by comparing it’s binary artifacts for equality (reproducible builds) * It should be ensured a release candidate builds correctly with Ant and with Maven * The release process should ideally work on any machine Did I miss something? Chris
