I my last months at Adobe I worked with Marvin and the Flex release
engineers on releasing a 'maven-ized' SDK release, at the time (Nov) it
was really close to being done. Not sure what the ultimate fate of that
was. There were plans to do this and improve Maven integration in Flash
Builder which Marvin was collaborating on but that has gone by the
wayside given events.
Marvin has been struggling on a number of fronts for years, 1) is trying
to develop a business around one of the most downloaded open source Flex
projects (which he was beginning to get off the ground up to November),
and 2) getting people to contribute code and not just complaints into
flexmojos.
I have been in touch with Marvin since November and he is interested in
continuing to some degree but just can't do it on his own. Given the
events since Nov it is not surprising he would reconsider his future
however given the value provided by flexmojos to so many
people/organizations it would be a shame not to see it continue forward.
On 3/9/2012 12:08 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote:
On 10/03/2012 04:47, Greg Reddin wrote:
Do we know that or has that discussion occurred?
There has been lengthy (public) discussions about Maven on Flex and
maven in Flex. I guess if the developers wanted to they would offer it
here?!
Am I in the wrong impression here?
On 10/03/2012 04:56, James Cowan wrote:
The license is GPL on the flexmojos site.
?? It states big and in all class files that its APL[1] where do you
read GPL?
I have always found Marvin extremely helpful. Also the source code of
flexmojos is enormous (enough to make your eyes water) and it took me
a day and
some ghastly hacks to get it to coexist imperfectly with SDK 4.6 so
getting Marvin involved somehow would be very good.
Apache is all about self-interest. If Marvin wants to help he can do so.
On 10/03/2012 05:04, Skogen, Espen wrote:
Sure, but Flexmojos does a perfectly fine job at building Flex in a
Maven environment. I suppose if Marvin decided to abandon it, then
there would be an argument for bringing it into the fold, but I don't
see a reason to reinvent the wheel. Just use Flexmojos if you want to
use Maven - That's certainly what I'm doing:)
I am not sure why to call it abandoned? The last commit was 8 days
ago[2] That is okay for a small project.
yours
Martin.
[1] http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/license.html
[2] https://github.com/Flexmojos/flexmojos/commits/flexmojos-4.x
