On 1/27/13 2:43 PM, "Russell Warren" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll pipe in here with some simple points since I routinely/exclusively
> work with Flex on Linux. I don't do flash/flex dev on Windows at all.
>
> I'm still using Flex 4.6 at the moment. I plan on switching to Apache Flex
> in the coming weeks and can provide an update to the mailing list then, if
> people are interested how it goes.
Yes, please let us know how it goes and feel free to ask question.
> I don't expect too many difficulties
> switching over (famous last words?), but know I won't be able to use the
> auto-install that has been created. However, for 4.6 I basically just
> needed to unpack the tar file and that was pretty much it, (I think... been
> a while) so this gives me some measure of confidence. Dependencies may be
> fun, but I hope I can just copy some of these across (fingers crossed!),
> assuming they haven't changed radically.
One key difference is that the Apache Flex binary distribution is not
"ready-to-go" like Adobe Flex because the Apache Flex binary distribution
cannot contain some of the Adobe-proprietary files that are in the Adobe
Flex tar. So you will have to follow the readme and download/copy stuff
manually.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
