Hi Mentors,
Carol and I are trying to make sense of the rules for binary files at Apache.
It is my current understanding that there are slightly different rules for what
can go in SVN vs in a release.
My current understanding is that we can keep binary files in SVN. You can have
a “deps” folder with JARs and other libraries you are dependent on. But can
you:
A. have test media that is compiled output of proprietary tools? Flex
allows use of PixelBender bitmap filters which are compiled using the Adobe
PixelBender toolkit
B. have source files that are not plain text? There are a few FLA files
from Adobe Flash that will be used for optional utility programs.
My current understanding is that a source release cannot contain binary files.
Yet in the Batik and Velocity source distributions there is a folder of JAR
files and I don’t see any option to build those JARs from source. Other notes
indicate that downstream releases should build from sources of upstream
releases. Again Batik and Velocity don’t seem to be doing this.
C. Can our source release build script leverage JARs or must it build
everything from sources?
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
