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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Grant Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Logan,
>
> In the meantime, I think someone should at least put a note on the existing
> Wiki page explaining some of this. I'd do it myself, but it looks like I
> need to be authorized (given a Confluence login?) to do so.
>
> I actually have some feedback to give on my setup for creating a
> certificate and signing/building an air app in one step which I combined
> from information in the Wikis and elsewhere - but couldn't find a way to
> register for the Wiki. Velo, if you assist me to post on the Wiki, I will
> gladly add some value to the project :)
>
> -Grant.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Logan Allred <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Grant Smith
>
>
>
> >
>

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