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Posted to dev@flex.apache.org by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com> on 2012/07/19 23:34:03 UTC
www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
For those of you that need to update links, etc, I just copied all the release files over and this is the layout. I think the top-level directory becomes www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex within a few hours, or at least I hope it does.
Is someone working on the release download page described here [1]?
Layout:
cframpton@minotaur:/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex$ ls -R
4.8.0-incubating KEYS
./4.8.0-incubating:
README apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.md5 binaries
RELEASE_NOTES apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip doc
apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.asc
apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.asc apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.md5
./4.8.0-incubating/binaries:
apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.md5 apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.asc
apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.asc apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.md5
./4.8.0-incubating/doc:
apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-asdocs.zip
Carol
[1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html<http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#closer>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
Fixed.
-Nick
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Nick- Go ahead and use
> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README (not
> README.txt). The file is there. It does not show when you look at
> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating.
>
> Another person on the infra list sent me this:
>
> It's possible for the file to be present but not visible in the index page.
> Try using the full URL.
>
> The files HEADER.html and README.html are used to provide footer and
> trailer contents on index pages.
> As such, they are not particularly useful as separate files, so AFAIK
> it is possible to stop them being shown
> in the index page output.
>
> If the index suppression is done using a command that happens to match
> README as well as README.html, this might explain
> the behaviour.
>
>
>
> Carol
>
> On 7/20/12 11 :19AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >On 7/20/12 9 :47AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
> >
> >>I made a few changes to the page on the staging server. Adding the
> >>README
> >>file I think will help a lot. I was able to do just about everything in
> >>your list except for the colors. I will have to play around with the CSS
> >>in order to do that (which is a real pain in this CMS).
> >
> >Nick - Anything named REAME* isn't visible. Infra doesn't know why.
> >Right now I've got READme up there which I can see. Or we can go with
> >Readme or some variant. Pick one, let me know, and then you've got to
> >update the links on your download page.
> >
> >Carol
> >>
> >
>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
Nick- Go ahead and use
http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README (not
README.txt). The file is there. It does not show when you look at
http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating.
Another person on the infra list sent me this:
It's possible for the file to be present but not visible in the index page.
Try using the full URL.
The files HEADER.html and README.html are used to provide footer and
trailer contents on index pages.
As such, they are not particularly useful as separate files, so AFAIK
it is possible to stop them being shown
in the index page output.
If the index suppression is done using a command that happens to match
README as well as README.html, this might explain
the behaviour.
Carol
On 7/20/12 11 :19AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
>On 7/20/12 9 :47AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>
>>I made a few changes to the page on the staging server. Adding the
>>README
>>file I think will help a lot. I was able to do just about everything in
>>your list except for the colors. I will have to play around with the CSS
>>in order to do that (which is a real pain in this CMS).
>
>Nick - Anything named REAME* isn't visible. Infra doesn't know why.
>Right now I've got READme up there which I can see. Or we can go with
>Readme or some variant. Pick one, let me know, and then you've got to
>update the links on your download page.
>
>Carol
>>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 9 :47AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>I made a few changes to the page on the staging server. Adding the README
>file I think will help a lot. I was able to do just about everything in
>your list except for the colors. I will have to play around with the CSS
>in order to do that (which is a real pain in this CMS).
Nick - Anything named REAME* isn't visible. Infra doesn't know why.
Right now I've got READme up there which I can see. Or we can go with
Readme or some variant. Pick one, let me know, and then you've got to
update the links on your download page.
Carol
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
I made a few changes to the page on the staging server. Adding the README
file I think will help a lot. I was able to do just about everything in
your list except for the colors. I will have to play around with the CSS
in order to do that (which is a real pain in this CMS).
-Nick
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/20/12 12 :04AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>
> >The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few
> >people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be
> >great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production.
> >
> >http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html
> >
> >-Nick
>
> Nick,
>
> Thank you SO much for doing this!!
>
> I realized about an hour after I copied the files up that I forgot to
> rename README to README.txt so that it would show on the website. It's
> renamed in the staging area
> (/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README.txt) but
> it doesn't look like it got copied. If you can get that page visible I
> think we should add a link for it under each of the RELEASE_NOTE links in
> the source and binary sections. I'm sure we will update the RELEASE_NOTES
> in the coming days so I'd like to know if we need to do anything special
> when we change one of files (we aren't allowed to change the artifacts for
> obvious reasons).
>
> I'm worried that people are just going to zero in on the binary section
> and think they can unzip and away they go. I think we need to add a
> sentence to the binary section that minimally has a link to the
> Dependencies section (or I'm open to suggestions).
>
> If we leave the Dependencies section as is, for the optional components,
> you need to make it clear that you need every one of those jars, except
> flex-messaging to enable embedded font support, and you need
> flex-messaging to enable BlazeDS. We should also add to the release notes
> that if you try to use BlazeDS and you don't have that jar it blows up in
> a rather ungraceful fashion (I can do this).
>
> Can we put "Please review the release notes before installing or compiling
> the SDK." in that awful yellow green color you have below or perhaps a
> nicer color :)
>
> Carol
>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
I think I'm leaning towards Carol's suggestion on this one.
-Nick
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/20/12 12 :28AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> 4. Perhaps instructions on where to place OSMF and TLF?
> >>
> >>
> >Do you want to supply this verbiage for me? In all honesty, I've
> >been relying on the ant scripts to do it for me :P
>
> I'd prefer you not do this. They should follow the instructions in the
> README - there are instructions for both the source and the binary kit.
> It is important to Apache that we put the license in front of them.
>
> Carol
>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Om <bi...@gmail.com>.
>
> > 4. Perhaps instructions on where to place OSMF and TLF?
> >
> >
> Do you want to supply this verbiage for me? In all honesty, I've
> been relying on the ant scripts to do it for me :P
>
>
Here are the steps to install:
*
Open Source Media Framework (OSMF):*
1. Download the file OSMF_1.0.zip from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osmf.adobe/files/OSMF%201.0%20%28final%20source%2C%20ASDocs%2C%20PDF%20guides%2C%20and%20release%20notes%29/OSMF_1.0.zip/download
2. Unzip OSMF_1.0.zip to a temporary directory
3. Copy <OSMF_1.0.temp.dir>/OSMF.swc to <flex.dir>/frameworks/libs/
*Text Layout Framework (TLF):*
1. Download the file textLayout_build.zip from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tlf.adobe/files/2.0/232/textLayout_build.zip/download
2. Unzip textLayout_build.zip to a temporary directory
3. Copy <textLayout_build.temp.dir>/libs/textLayout.swc to
<flex.dir>/frameworks/libs/
Thanks,
Om
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 12 :28AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>
>
>> 4. Perhaps instructions on where to place OSMF and TLF?
>>
>>
>Do you want to supply this verbiage for me? In all honesty, I've
>been relying on the ant scripts to do it for me :P
I'd prefer you not do this. They should follow the instructions in the
README - there are instructions for both the source and the binary kit.
It is important to Apache that we put the license in front of them.
Carol
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
Reply Inline :
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> > The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few
> > people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be
> > great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production.
> >
> > http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html
>
>
> 1. I'd add a big "Please read the release notes"! People wont but may stop
> a couple of questions to the list :-)
>
Done. Bold is as much as I can do without doing much with the CSS
>
> 2. Some of the mirror links are not working yet. I assume because it's not
> propagated to those mirrors yet. The top file link worked fine in all cases.
>
>
According to the CGI script, some sites may take as long as 24 hours. In
my own testing, 3 hours in, about half the sites now have all the files.
> 3. Add a warning that it won't compile of Java 1.7 (yet).
>
>
done.
> 4. Perhaps instructions on where to place OSMF and TLF?
>
>
Do you want to supply this verbiage for me? In all honesty, I've
been relying on the ant scripts to do it for me :P
-Nick
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>.
Hi Nick,
> The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few
> people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be
> great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production.
>
> http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html
1. I'd add a big "Please read the release notes"! People wont but may stop a couple of questions to the list :-)
2. Some of the mirror links are not working yet. I assume because it's not propagated to those mirrors yet. The top file link worked fine in all cases.
3. Add a warning that it won't compile of Java 1.7 (yet).
4. Perhaps instructions on where to place OSMF and TLF?
Thanks,
Justin
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 11 :08AM, "Alex Harui" <ah...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>On 7/20/12 7:58 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> For that matter the binaries aren't part of the release either but I
>>agree
>> I wouldn't put it up there unless I got permission first.
>Who do we get permission from? Remember that HTTPD has MSI installers on
>its downloads page.
I'd start by running it by our mentors.
Carol
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 7:58 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> For that matter the binaries aren't part of the release either but I agree
> I wouldn't put it up there unless I got permission first.
Who do we get permission from? Remember that HTTPD has MSI installers on
its downloads page.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 10 :50AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>It's not really apart of the release, so I don't think so, but we should
>be
>able to create another place for it to exist.
For that matter the binaries aren't part of the release either but I agree
I wouldn't put it up there unless I got permission first.
>
>BTW: Is the installer final? I'd like to post it on the website as well.
I just submitted a fix a few minutes ago.
Carol
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
It's not really apart of the release, so I don't think so, but we should be
able to create another place for it to exist.
BTW: Is the installer final? I'd like to post it on the website as well.
-Nick
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/20/12 6:34 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I'm worried that people are just going to zero in on the binary section
> > and think they can unzip and away they go. I think we need to add a
> > sentence to the binary section that minimally has a link to the
> > Dependencies section (or I'm open to suggestions).
> >
> Can we put Om's installer in the same folder as the bin.zip?
>
> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 6:34 AM, "Carol Frampton" <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> I'm worried that people are just going to zero in on the binary section
> and think they can unzip and away they go. I think we need to add a
> sentence to the binary section that minimally has a link to the
> Dependencies section (or I'm open to suggestions).
>
Can we put Om's installer in the same folder as the bin.zip?
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>.
On 7/20/12 12 :04AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:
>The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few
>people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be
>great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production.
>
>http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html
>
>-Nick
Nick,
Thank you SO much for doing this!!
I realized about an hour after I copied the files up that I forgot to
rename README to README.txt so that it would show on the website. It's
renamed in the staging area
(/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README.txt) but
it doesn't look like it got copied. If you can get that page visible I
think we should add a link for it under each of the RELEASE_NOTE links in
the source and binary sections. I'm sure we will update the RELEASE_NOTES
in the coming days so I'd like to know if we need to do anything special
when we change one of files (we aren't allowed to change the artifacts for
obvious reasons).
I'm worried that people are just going to zero in on the binary section
and think they can unzip and away they go. I think we need to add a
sentence to the binary section that minimally has a link to the
Dependencies section (or I'm open to suggestions).
If we leave the Dependencies section as is, for the optional components,
you need to make it clear that you need every one of those jars, except
flex-messaging to enable embedded font support, and you need
flex-messaging to enable BlazeDS. We should also add to the release notes
that if you try to use BlazeDS and you don't have that jar it blows up in
a rather ungraceful fashion (I can do this).
Can we put "Please review the release notes before installing or compiling
the SDK." in that awful yellow green color you have below or perhaps a
nicer color :)
Carol
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few
people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be
great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production.
http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html
-Nick
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>wrote:
> Working on it. You can see the progress on
> http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/
>
> Should have it posted this evening. I can't believe this is finally
> happening :)
>
> -Nick
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com>wrote:
>
>> For those of you that need to update links, etc, I just copied all the
>> release files over and this is the layout. I think the top-level directory
>> becomes www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex within a few hours, or at
>> least I hope it does.
>>
>> Is someone working on the release download page described here [1]?
>>
>> Layout:
>>
>> cframpton@minotaur:/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex$ ls -R
>> 4.8.0-incubating KEYS
>>
>> ./4.8.0-incubating:
>> README apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.md5 binaries
>> RELEASE_NOTES apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip doc
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.asc
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.asc
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.md5
>>
>> ./4.8.0-incubating/binaries:
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.md5
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.asc
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.asc
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.md5
>>
>> ./4.8.0-incubating/doc:
>> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-asdocs.zip
>>
>> Carol
>>
>> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html<
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#closer>
>>
>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Nicholas Kwiatkowski <ni...@spoon.as>.
Working on it. You can see the progress on
http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/
Should have it posted this evening. I can't believe this is finally
happening :)
-Nick
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Carol Frampton <cf...@adobe.com> wrote:
> For those of you that need to update links, etc, I just copied all the
> release files over and this is the layout. I think the top-level directory
> becomes www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex within a few hours, or at
> least I hope it does.
>
> Is someone working on the release download page described here [1]?
>
> Layout:
>
> cframpton@minotaur:/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex$ ls -R
> 4.8.0-incubating KEYS
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating:
> README apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.md5 binaries
> RELEASE_NOTES apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip doc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.md5
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating/binaries:
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.md5
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.md5
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating/doc:
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-asdocs.zip
>
> Carol
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html<
> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#closer>
>
Re: www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex and the release download page
Posted by Dasa Paddock <dp...@esri.com>.
The Windows Source and Binaries links take me to the mirrors page, but the Mac OS X links just immediately download a 13 KB binary file.
--Dasa
On Jul 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Carol Frampton wrote:
> For those of you that need to update links, etc, I just copied all the release files over and this is the layout. I think the top-level directory becomes www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex within a few hours, or at least I hope it does.
>
> Is someone working on the release download page described here [1]?
>
> Layout:
>
> cframpton@minotaur:/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex$ ls -R
> 4.8.0-incubating KEYS
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating:
> README apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.md5 binaries
> RELEASE_NOTES apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip doc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.tar.gz.asc apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-src.zip.md5
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating/binaries:
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.md5 apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.asc
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz.asc apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-bin.zip.md5
>
> ./4.8.0-incubating/doc:
> apache-flex-sdk-4.8.0-incubating-asdocs.zip
>
> Carol
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html<http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#closer>