On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 4/5/12 10:13 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> The latest information I have on this is that 11.1 playerglobal is publicly >>> available in the Adobe Flex 4.6 Open Source SDK. >> I'll see if I can change the build script to use that hopefully there's a >> direct URL and it's not a download the zip and extract. > You may be able to pull it directly from Adobe SVN. But first, we need to > get a ruling from Apache about downloading it at all in the build script. > It isn't under Apache license (it is under MPL) and it isn't optional. > > My current interpretation of the rules says that we have to make it a > 'prerequisite' like Ant. You have to get it on your own beforehand so you > absolutely understand the license it is under. > > And the same may be true for the Air Tarball/zip as well.
Ant is a prerequisite to actually run the build script. Other dependencies don't necessarily require pre-installation. It is certainly possible to have the build script download dependencies. What is automatic vs. having to ask the user depends on whether the dependency has a category A or B license. Category A licenses can be automatic. For example, in Apache POI there are several jars downloaded in the fetch-jars target. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/build.xml There is also a rat-check target at the end that is a useful example. Regards, Dave > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
