Re: [LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Tom Chiverton]

+1

Installing AIR on modern Linux machines is already hard, and only going 
to get harder.
By contrast Java and Ant are available ready packaged in every major 
distribution.


Tom

On 10/02/2014 21:28, Alex Harui wrote:

Hi,

Tom C has reported that he's successfully used the ant script on Linux to
install Apache Flex 4.12, and has recommended that we go back to only
creating InstallApacheFlex.dmg and InstallApacheFlex.exe files and Linux
users will be instructed to use Ant.

Please voice any objections ASAP.

-Alex

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[LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Alex Harui]

Hi,

Tom C has reported that he's successfully used the ant script on Linux to
install Apache Flex 4.12, and has recommended that we go back to only
creating InstallApacheFlex.dmg and InstallApacheFlex.exe files and Linux
users will be instructed to use Ant.

Please voice any objections ASAP.

-Alex

Re: [LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Sean Thayne]

+1 for this

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Tom C has reported that he's successfully used the ant script on Linux to
 install Apache Flex 4.12, and has recommended that we go back to only
 creating InstallApacheFlex.dmg and InstallApacheFlex.exe files and Linux
 users will be instructed to use Ant.

 Please voice any objections ASAP.

 -Alex

Re: [LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

Are we 100% certain that Flex Devs want this? I think we should be asking wider 
than just the dev list as it effects users of the SDK and people have be 
critical re changes in Linux support in the past.

-1 from me until that is done.

Justin

Re: [LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Alex Harui]

OK, will send poll on users@.

On 2/10/14 1:49 PM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote:

Hi,

Are we 100% certain that Flex Devs want this? I think we should be asking
wider than just the dev list as it effects users of the SDK and people
have be critical re changes in Linux support in the past.

-1 from me until that is done.

Justin

Re: [LAZY][Installer] Retire the Apache Flex Installer for Linux

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

 OK, will send poll on users@.
Thanks.

IMO for something are important as this it probably shouldn't be a LAZY vote as 
we are voting to remove/stop release a piece of software/support for a platform.

While we are providing an alternative means to instal it may not be suitable 
for everyone and it hasn't been voted on or released yet.

Justin

Apache Flex Installer on Linux

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

Got the installer to compile and run to completion on Linux. It need some 
improvements around installation of the deb package - anyone have experience 
with this?

The only other issue is the application xml file contains 3.4 namespace when 
Linux needs to 2.6 one, I guess the ant script could change it to 2.6 as it 
changes a few other things but is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,
Justin