Point taken. I’ll spend some time today and see if I can figure it out. If I have trouble, I might come back and ask you for help… ;-)
On Feb 16, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 2/15/16, 11:44 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would definitely work on this if I knew how. My level of expertise >> using ant is about good enough to look at a build file and get a general >> idea of how it works. > > Before Flex came to Apache, I didn't know much about Ant either. We had > folks who did that sort of stuff at Adobe. But I was forced to learn it. > You're a smart guy, you could learn it too if motivated enough. > > But, because you are a volunteer and your time is limited, I guess that > gives you the right to say, "well, if it isn't as easy as I want it to be, > I can't contribute". And that puts the onus on the few of us who have > more time to do the not-so-fun stuff. Which isn't fun. Which is why I'm > complaining. Like or not, this stuff is the bleeding edge. I really > don't see much advantage to the community to polish stuff that might > change soon. I had hoped we could draw in more folks who could put up > with the bleeding edge, but apparently we can't. Folks can just say "I > don't want to know how you work, this is how I want to work" and I have to > try to figure out what the difference is and try to get the build system > to conform to it. > >> >> The Flex builds seem really complex to me and I’m not even sure what all >> the dependencies are. > > Agreed that it is complex. I could probably stop developing new features > and try to make it simpler. The README and LICENSE hopefully document the > dependencies. > > -Alex >
