What about the AIR SDK 3.4 that is the required minimum for Apache Flex 4.9?

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

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> On 1/26/13 2:31 PM, "Michael Montoya" <montoyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How is it that Linux, THE open-source OS par excellence is not supported
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> > project under the Apache umbrella?
> There are parts of the SDK that embed pixel bender executables.  According
> to Apache rules, a release must be all source, so the build script requires
> that you compile the pixel bender sources into their executables.  Adobe
> does not have pixel bender compilers for Linux.
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> > this absolutely makes no sense to me.
> > Supporting OSX can't possibly be all that different than suppoting Linux,
> > which leads me to belive that the reason is more political than
> technical...
> > boo this really turns me off to the project!
> It is a legal technicality.  We should look into making the pixel bender
> stuff optional somehow.
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> In theory, you should be able to manually install and setup one of the
> binary distributions on Linux.  However, none of the active committers are
> using Linux as far as I can tell.  I would love to have someone who is a
> regular Linux user help us test the release candidates on Linux and help
> with documentation or even contribute to the installer.  Would you like to
> volunteer?
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> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
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