On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Grant Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> We were also hoping that flex-mojos would be more open, in the spirit of open
> source, but I guess the descriptor xml file falls outside of this scope,
> perhaps.
>
> You really should remove the Wiki page of the descriptor file is
> proprietary, no ?

The specific files Velo uses to update the Sonatype repos are
proprietary. Everything else is open.

Installing your own FDK is an advanced topic, and Velo was bit
severely in the past when those who didn't understand what it was
doing did it wrong and caused all sorts of support problems. It's very
hard to troubleshoot Maven and Flexmojos if the FDK is messed up, and
Velo wasted lots of time in the past trying to help people figure out
what went wrong. That is why he doesn't want the process to be
well-known. Not due to proprietary concerns, but support and sanity
concerns.

I have installed several FDKs myself (using the old way, not the new
bundle publisher). If you are careful, understand what it is doing,
and pretty good at Maven debugging on your own, you should be able to
do it on your own just fine. We will need to install another custom
FDK in a few months, and I'll learn bundle publisher then and do it
myself. But you have to have a really really solid understanding of
how Maven and Flexmojos use the Flex SDK, and how it's structured. The
bundle-publisher is open source, but poorly documented, but you can
dig through the source and figure out how to make it work.

If I can figure out a "safe" way to share that, and get Velo to agree,
then I'll share it on the Wiki.

If you really need custom FDKs and don't have the time or money to do
it yourself or pay someone to set them up, then the other option is to
switch to Servebox, which supports a locally installed Flex SDK model,
or convince Velo to add a similar option to Flexmojos (not likely). Or
you can try and get Adobe to release the FDK themselves in a Maven
repo, so we don't have to do it for them.

Logan

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