Re: AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > OK, CrossBridge uses unix tools like gcc and swig. So removing the cygwin > requirement will be painful. > > What is the current sentiment? Require Cygwin or Visual Studio? At least > Cygwin is free. In theory other unix shells for Windows

Re: AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
OK, CrossBridge uses unix tools like gcc and swig. So removing the cygwin requirement will be painful. What is the current sentiment? Require Cygwin or Visual Studio? At least Cygwin is free. In theory other unix shells for Windows will work but CrossBridge doc onl mentions Cygwin. Meanwhile,

Re: AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
Well, I'm new to Native Extensions as well, but it appears you can't create a single extension that works on both OSX and Windows. Folks seem to be using Visual Studio for Windows and Xcode for Mac. That seems like a lot of work and a complicated build environment. The nice thing about the Cross

Re: [Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
Infra has been messing around with email/spam filters. I saw on their lists that they expect more bounce messages, but I will check with them to see if things are working as they expect. On 6/2/14 4:36 PM, "Gordon Smith" wrote: >I've gotten maybe 8-10 such emails over the last 2-3 months for va

Re: HTTPService Example

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
A simple POST test worked for me. Did you get an error? What were you trying to post? -Alex On 6/2/14 10:18 AM, "pesgaio" wrote: >Thak you, but I meant a FlexJS example. > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-HTTPService-Ex >amp

Re: [Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
This is the message in question: http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/Error-Could-not-find-compiled-resource-bundle-collections-for-locale-en-US-td37549.html This was sent via nabble; it could have been a result of that, perhaps? And I dont see this email in my inbox. Thanks, Om

Re: [Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread Doug McCune
I got the same thing, and the exact same message number referenced. Maybe that particular message was rejected by Google? On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Angelo Anolin wrote: > I received this from dev-h...@flex.apache.org (and I have no idea why I > got > it). Any help or insight would be app

RE: [Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread Gordon Smith
I've gotten maybe 8-10 such emails over the last 2-3 months for various Apache Flex lists. I've been ignoring them because I don't know what else to do. - Gordon > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 19:13:12 -0400 > From: jef...@dot-com-it.com > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Help With

Re: [Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread Jeffry Houser
I got the same email. Something like this shows up on the private list every couple of months; and we've had a few non-public discussion about it. I forget the meaning, but generally I decided it was okay to ignore. On 6/2/2014 3:22 PM, Angelo Anolin wrote: I received this from dev-h...@

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 1:02 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. >While it's license may not matter it could depends on what it puts into >the swf? May effect the LICENSE/NOTICE files. The CrossBridge compiler just generated ABC code but uses GCC to do it. Do

Re: AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
In theory, all PMC members with Windows computers have Cygwin or some shell script processor in place otherwise they cannot run Mustella. We could create a separate release package like we did for PixelBender, but seriously, how many of you are going to build the installer from sources? I'll look

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 1:02 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > >> I thought we'd given up on Linux installer in favor of ant. >So that would require us to check the MD5 hashes on Linux another way? The Ant script does the on Linux. > >BTW are we currently using this for MD5 checks? >https://github.com/mikechamber

Re: HTTPService Example

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
I don't think we've fully implement POST yet. Let me take a look. On 6/2/14 10:18 AM, "pesgaio" wrote: >Thak you, but I meant a FlexJS example. > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-HTTPService-Ex >ample-tp37930p37933.html >Sent

RE: AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Michael A. Labriola
> -1 for Cygwin too :-( Something to note for Windows Users, if you install git bash (which is generally part of the windows install for git) you can use it in place of Cygwin. It might be a much easier way for us to move forward instead of requiring Cygwin. Mike

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Roland Zwaga
FZip has since become as3commons-zip: http://as3commons.org/as3-commons-zip/index.html On 2 June 2014 22:07, Justin Mclean wrote: > HI, > > Perhaps this is an option? I like the sound of "parses ZIP archives > progressively" - which implies non blocking UI to me. > http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fz

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
HI, Perhaps this is an option? I like the sound of "parses ZIP archives progressively" - which implies non blocking UI to me. http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/ License compatibility would need to be checked. Justin

AW: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
-1 for Cygwin too :-( -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Gesendet: Montag, 2. Juni 2014 21:00 An: dev@flex.apache.org Betreff: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer As you may have seen, I've added a bunch of MD5 checksums to the installe

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. While it's license may not matter it could depends on what it puts into the swf? May effect the LICENSE/NOTICE files. > Good question about NativeExtension. Does the installer only run on Intel > CPUs? Would IMO be reasonable to assume th

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
The CrossBridge license doesn't matter too much. It will be a compiler pre-requisite just like Adobe Extension Manager. I did use the sample code that is MIT licensed to build the md5 swc. I'm checking with Adobe legal on the rules for that code. Good question about NativeExtension. Does the i

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I think it is worth adding CrossBridge as a build prerequisite to the > Installer. CrossBridge seems to be MIT licences [1] but doesn't contain a license file that I can find. I notice it also includes other licensed software which may not be Apache compatible, they include libpng, libjpe

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > I think you misunderstood. Cygwin is only needed to build the installer, > not use/run it. > > Ah okay. Then no objections from my side. It is reasonable to expect the Release Managers to have Cygwin installed. Thanks, Om > Workers won't

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
I think you misunderstood. Cygwin is only needed to build the installer, not use/run it. Workers won't help. It may leave the UI as responsive, but you still have to wait several minutes for the checksum to be completed. MD5 is totally async in the installer today. What isn't is the unzip. It

RE : [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread webdoublefx
I just started today, so not sure Ill make it but was trying to make workers more friendly than what they are today, closer than what they are in Java, my goal was to continue what I wasnt able to finish before with the installer using workers and sub workers to download and computer the md5, I

[Off-Topic] Help With Bouncing Mail

2014-06-02 Thread Angelo Anolin
I received this from dev-h...@flex.apache.org (and I have no idea why I got it). Any help or insight would be appreciated. dev-h...@flex.apache.org 1:00 PM (20 minutes ago) to me Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the dev@flex.apache.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can

Re: [Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > As you may have seen, I've added a bunch of MD5 checksums to the installer > in hopes of detecting bad downloads and reporting them to the tracker so > we can see if bad downloads is the root cause of many of the install > failures that have be

[Installer] Using Alchemy/CrossBridge in the Installer

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
As you may have seen, I've added a bunch of MD5 checksums to the installer in hopes of detecting bad downloads and reporting them to the tracker so we can see if bad downloads is the root cause of many of the install failures that have been reported. The current built-in MD5Stream, written in AS,

Re: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 11:25 AM, "Michael A. Labriola" wrote: >>Makes sense and we probably should have done that in the first place. >>But since we didn't, do we change behavior and risk breaking folks or >>add a flag and keep both code paths? > >The problem I have with two code paths is how do we choose b

RE: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>Makes sense and we probably should have done that in the first place. But >since we didn't, do we change behavior and risk breaking folks or add a flag >and keep both code paths? The problem I have with two code paths is how do we choose between them? Are we going to do a version number check

Re: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 10:46 AM, "Michael A. Labriola" wrote: >>A totally reasonable scenario. It is tempting to simply remove this >>check, but you never know when someone is relying on this behavior. > >I am not really suggesting that we remove it completely, just rather that >we consider it an OR. A Sor

[OT] Silicon Valley Apache Flex User Group - First meeting

2014-06-02 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
A bunch of us met at 360Flex 2014 two weeks ago. There was a lot of interest in creating a new Apache Flex User Group in the silicon valley aka SF bay area. I went ahead and set up a first meeting. We dont have a definite agenda yet. The group members will be determining the agenda. Details her

RE: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>A totally reasonable scenario. It is tempting to simply remove this check, >but you never know when someone is relying on this behavior. I am not really suggesting that we remove it completely, just rather that we consider it an OR. A SortField's name must either be valid or it must have a co

Re: HTTPService Example

2014-06-02 Thread pesgaio
Thak you, but I meant a FlexJS example. -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-HTTPService-Example-tp37930p37933.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
On 6/2/14 7:38 AM, "Michael A. Labriola" wrote: >>It's a valid question. There is probably no one right answer. My >>answer is that, if you didn't intend the compareFunction to use the >>field name in the SortField, why use a SortField at all? Why not just >>use the top-level Sort compareFun

Re: HTTPService Example

2014-06-02 Thread Lee Burrows
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/10/29/passing-parameters-to-an-httpservice/ On 02/06/2014 17:38, pesgaio wrote: Does anyone have an HTTPService example, using POST? I'm having some dificulties sending data to an from the server. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-

HTTPService Example

2014-06-02 Thread pesgaio
Does anyone have an HTTPService example, using POST? I'm having some dificulties sending data to an from the server. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.247.n4.nabble.com/HTTPService-Example-tp37930.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list

Re: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
Ok, I think this approach could be working. Probably you'll need to introduce a new special scope in order not to intersect with scopes used by people. Or may be instead of scope it would be possible to use some other classification feature. I guess only playerglobal.swc/airglobal.swc contain O

AW: AW: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
Well I'm not assuming that "isInternal" isn't used and can be ignored, I'm just assuming that I can make a Source internal by providing the appropreate scopes in flexmojos and hence make the "copy the file around and internally rename" hack obsolete. But I'll be able to investigate this in more

[Installer] Bad FP version in flex-sdk-description.xml

2014-06-02 Thread Frédéric THOMAS
Hi, Not sure if it has been pointed out already but I tried to download the nightly build using FP 1.4 and AIR 3.4 but had Apache Flex 4.13.0 FP11.7 AIR3.4 en_US in the flex-sdk-description.xml Here is the partial log [1], everything seems ok, the problem should be when the flex-sdk-descriptio

Re: AW: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
I don't know. I'm sure Velo also did some simple testing before releasing Flexmojos 3.7.0. But the problem came in real-life complex multi-modular project [1] and he had to release 7.0.1. flex2.compiler.Source#isInternal() method has 24 usages and I can't say for sure that all of them can be si

Re: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Gary Yang
Maybe a few warnings when 1) developer NOT using same version( between playerglobal and target player); 2) developer explicitly declare playerglobal as internal/external. -Gary On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Ähem ... actually I didn't want to treat it any different

RE: [Mustella] still failing, must fix

2014-06-02 Thread Michael A. Labriola
>It's a valid question. There is probably no one right answer. My answer is >that, if you didn't intend the compareFunction to use the field name in the >SortField, why use a SortField at all? Why not just use the top-level Sort >compareFunction. Just continuing the discussion. I think the c

AW: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
But why does it produce running applications if I remove the special handling? (I am using the legacy compiler) Chris Von: Alexander Doroshko Gesendet: Montag, 2. Juni 2014 16:16 An: dev@flex.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for

AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
Ähem ... actually I didn't want to treat it any different than the rest. First I should make clear: Flexmojos ("external") tells the compiler not to include the classes in the output, "internal" includes everything into the output. I think the Flex compiler has a different definition of this (T

Re: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
You are right that playerglobal.swc has "external" dependency scope in Maven terms (and -external-library-path in terms of Flex compiler options). Custom SWCs also may have "external" scope configred by user who wants to omit inclusion of classes from this custom SWC. From maven point of view b

Re: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Gary Yang
Chris, You are right, I think it would be better to treat playerglobal specially, it is the NOT opensource core of Flash platform. -Gary On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > I Just had a look at the code and it seems that the hard-coded name is > only used in order to decide

AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
I Just had a look at the code and it seems that the hard-coded name is only used in order to decide if the dependency is "internal". In Flexmojos I can set scopes "internal" and "external" (I think in Flexmojos Scopes the playerglobal should be "external"). So I'll investigate if setting the pla

Re: AW: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
That's just a bad package name. Code that relies on playerglobal.swc file name is still in use in Apache Flex SDK 4.12. On 02.06.2014 13:15, Christofer Dutz wrote: Well I'll do a little exploration ... But as you posted in one of your last posts, it looks as if this is comming from some flex2

AW: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
Well I'll do a little exploration ... But as you posted in one of your last posts, it looks as if this is comming from some flex2 compiler. Could It be possible that the problems of hard-coded names would only affect Flex 2 Applications built with Apache Flex? I mean 3.7.1 seems to have been

Re: AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
On 02.06.2014 12:41, Christofer Dutz wrote: Well I am currently experimenting with the Flexmojos Build, but it seems the compiler is producing swfs and swcs correctly even if playerglobal is called playerglobal-13.0.swc ... Marvin thought so too with Flexmojos 3.7 release and had to release 3.

AW: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Christofer Dutz
Well I am currently experimenting with the Flexmojos Build, but it seems the compiler is producing swfs and swcs correctly even if playerglobal is called playerglobal-13.0.swc ... If there are parts in the SDK that have this hard-coded name, would it be reasonable to refactor these? I would cert

Re: AW: Is/Was there a requirement for the playerglobal.swc having to be named exactly this way?

2014-06-02 Thread Alexander Doroshko
I'm afraid hardcoded "playerglobal.swc" is still not wiped out from the compiler sources. See flex2.compiler.mxml.lang.StandardDefs#SWC_PLAYERGLOBAL, its usage in flex2.compiler.CompilerSwcContext#createSource() and further usages of flex2.compiler.Source#isInternal(). With renamed playerglobal