You want a decent IDE for flex on linux? How about one that's a million times better than Flash Builder, and cheaper :-)
Intellij Idea Haven't used Flash Builder for about two years now. Conrad WInchester On 11 Feb 2012, at 15:52, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: > To say there is no technical reason why those products take so long to be > produced on the Linux platform, that is a bit short-sighted. > > First off, while Linux users account for 60% of the tech news I read, they > only really account for 2% of the desktop/laptop market-share. 1996 - 2011 > was always supposed to be the year of the "linux desktop", but it never > happened.. This, to begin with is a show-stopper for most companies trying > to make money. > > The other major problem is the instability of anything graphics within > Linux. Do we make binaries that target X11? XFree86? The next thing on > the block? Gnome? KDE? Oh? None of those give us access to the GPU > through some common API or driver stack? Oh, half of the graphics drivers > don't even expose the GPU? When they do they are broken? What? the OSS > kids decided to make the API different because they wanted it to be > different than the closed-source version the vendor provided? At least > other platforms like BSD / Solaris / etc are not nearly as bad as this. > > If you build your tools on a platform like Eclipse, you leverage a LOT of > work that others have already done -- but there are still some major > differences between the Mac/Win/Linux versions of Eclipse. Again, if you > don't care about graphics, it is not a big deal, but if you want to do > something as simple as the Design view, it becomes much harder. > > Adobe at one time stated that they didn't push forward with a Linux version > of Flash Builder because they would have needed to write a new licensing > engine. They did the math, and decided that if they would have to charge > for the product, most people won't pay for it (who pays for Linux software? > really?). Heck, people won't install close-source software when it is > free, because that isn't the Linux way! Just look at how much guff Adobe > for for their Flash Player they published (and wouldn't OS it). > > I personally would like to see a descent Flex IDE that works under Linux, > but I'm not holding my breath for somebody else to create it for me. Heck, > just getting a Linux compiler back would be a huge step forward. But I > also know it would be on the OSS community and us to do it -- and I doubt > we will see that anytime soon. > > -Nick > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Timothy Jones > <timothy.jo...@syniverse.com>wrote: > >> Just my two cents... >> >> As a Linux user and developer, I have always hated how the Linux Flash >> runtime is always seems to be a few releases behind Adobe's Windows and Mac >> versions, how Adobe's content creation tools (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, CS3, >> and even Flex Builder) aren't available on Linux AT ALL. It took Adobe >> FOREVER to produce a decent 64-bit Linux build of Flash. Seeing as how Mac >> OS is both Darwin/BSD AND Intel 64-bit-based, there is no technical reason >> it should have taken so long. >> >> I joined this list because my team at work already has a significant >> investment in Flex, and finally Flex has an opportunity to realize its true >> potential as a fully open-source technology under Apache's guidance. I >> will be very happy to see any progress Flex makes away from Flash. If that >> means moving towards HTML5/js, that's even better. And it's not because >> Steve Jobs said so. >> >> The end goal I want to see is to see a complete Flex development >> environment that runs on any FreeBSD/Linux distro, produces content that >> runs in Chrome/Firefox/any-other-modern-browser, (yes, also on Linux) and >> requires not a single executable byte from adobe.com. I'll be happy to >> help test Apache Flex on many variants of that configuration for you. :-) >> >> >> >> >> tlj >>
