Thanks,

OK, I have updated the WIki with my combined certificate signing and
packaging modifications.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Marvin Froeder <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just need to signup do get editing access...
> https://docs.sonatype.org/signup.action
>
>
> VELO
>
> 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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Grant Smith

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