It would be great to have a intellij user use the new installer rc to install flexjs and see if it works. The overlay is soon to be obsolete. The ant scripts should be cross compiling and leaving results in the bin folder
Sent via the PANTECH Discover, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone. Carlos Rovira <carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com> wrote: Hi, as I'm a IntelliJ IDEA user (and no longer a FB user), I'm interested in this thread and have some question, hope @Erik, @Alex or @Om could know something about it: 1) The thread start with some FDT points proposed to get IDE support. As Erik state most of then are solved. @Erik, is this right? we have all the points covered? If not, could you point me to what point are already needed (not covered) ? 2) The new ApacheFlexJSOverlay.zip confuses me, since The most of the above is already done, but we already need this for FB (and it seems that it's only for FB and not for FDT, IntelliJ and others...). @Alex: Could you throw some light about this overlay and how is constructed, and why is needed at this time of development? What we need to remove that .zip from the process of IDE Integration? There's plans for deprecation of this zip? 3) One of the things I like in the last months changes is the addittion of "build.xml" per example, so we can make "ant" in the folder and quickly get the SWF version. But I think we can't get the JS version running some "ant" (maybe with params?). Or maybe is there but I can't see it? This could be very cool and could be another booster. In my opinion if we try to get a smooth way to integrate in some way with any IDE, we could get more people on the FlexJS vagon. In the other hand, maybe stand only with Flash Builder partial support is not very good, taking into account that this Apache (we should be more generic) and FB seems a dead IDE (maybe not, but I don't know too much about it in a long time). What do you think? Thanks for any help with this issues Carlos 2013-11-30 8:43 GMT+01:00 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: > > > On 11/29/13 11:31 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On Nov 29, 2013 10:40 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> > >> FB has some expectations that we probably can't change. If you look at > >> the deploy scripts, some of them just don't seem necessary. Each of > >>those > >> expectations, especially the ones assuming that third-party code is in > >>the > >> same folder tree, makes us do more work in the installer and makes the > >> customer wait longer to get up and running on a new SDK. If the other > >> IDEs have fewer expectations or are willing to change their > >>expectations, > >> then those IDE vendors could say they have easier and quicker FlexJS > >> integration. > >> > >> But for now, I think we have to meet FB's expectations, try to generate > >>a > >> lot of interest in Apache Flex SDKs of any flavor, and then see if any > >>IDE > >> vendors are more willing to be Flex-ible. > >> > >> -Alex > > > >I don't think I follow. Can you please elaborate what expectations that > >other IDEs need to relax? > I haven't tried any other IDEs. Someone should take a FlexJS "SDK" and > try it and see if there are other funky assumptions (like FB expects an > mx.filters package). > > But if the IDE vendors insist on co-location of AIR, FP and now GOOG, > instead of also providing more flexibility like Apache Flex SDKs do today, > then folks will never get out of having to run an installer to co-locate > those dependencies. > > For example, FB has an Installed AIR SDKs section already. It could add > an Installed GOOG and Installed FP section and project properties allow > you to choose one, not assume that the one you want is co-located. > > > > > >I would rather we target our efforts towards supporting IDEs that have > >some > >level of active development in the future. I am not sure if that is the > >case with Flash Builder. > I think FB has a significant enough user base that we have to keep it in > play. But there is a great opportunity for the other IDE vendors to show > that they work better. > -Alex > > -- Carlos Rovira Director de Tecnología M: +34 607 22 60 05 F: +34 912 94 80 80 http://www.codeoscopic.com http://www.directwriter.es http://www.avant2.es
