Oops, I forgot one... 2.5 Eliminate the zipped-up Apache SDK in the Falcon branch and instead use an environment variable to point to an SDK branch.
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Smith Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:52 AM To: 'Raju Bitter' Cc: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Is there anything the community can do to help you testing or documenting Falcon and the build process? My top priorities currently are: 1. Get the top-level Ant targets working properly. For example, 'ant javadoc' currently produces compilation errors, probably due to a classpath problem, and 'ant main' produces an mxmlc which doesn't work due to another classpath problem that you noticed. 2. Document the build process, either on wiki pages or in the README file, so that people understand what environment variables need to be set and what Ant targets to use. 3. Create JUnit tests in which Falcon builds each of the SDK SWCs. As part of this I want to change the SDK build scripts so that the <compc> tasks don't have a bunch of configuration but instead simply load a config file. Then the JUnit test can use the same config file to compile the SWC in a debuggable way by calling Falcon's COMPC.main() entry point. 4. Update the SDK code to suit Falcon, because it is stricter than the old compiler. 5. Log bugs for any SDK code that Falcon barfs on (either throwing Java exceptions or reporting spurious errors or warnings). 6. Fix those bugs. What you like to take on the conversion of the <compc> tasks to use config files? - Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Raju Bitter [mailto:r.bitter.mailingli...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:41 AM To: Gordon Smith Cc: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Is there anything the community can do to help you testing or documenting Falcon and the build process? Gordon, It's great to see the Falcon source code contributed to Apache Flex. Thanks to you and everyone else at Adobe who made that possible. That's a very valuable contribution! Is there anything the community can do to help you with the Falcon code? Testing the build, updating the documentation in the Wiki? Maybe it would be good to start working on a Wiki page describing the build process with Eclipse for Windows, OS X and Linux? I'd volunteer to help you with that, and I can imagine others would be interested as well? - Raju
