Cheers and understood

Bit disappointed in adobe for not supporting linux properly, but they are not 
the only company to take that stance.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: christofer.d...@c-ware.de [mailto:christofer.d...@c-ware.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 10:31 AM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: AW: Flex Linux support

Hi,

well if you are using Flexmojos it is currently possible to build Fllex 
applications on Linux and from the support requests on the Flexmojos Malinglist 
there are quite a few people doing so. Unfortunately if you want to have your 
build automatically execute flex unit tests, this is where you start getting 
into trouble. I for my part, have abandoned building on Linux because the 
savings of using a free OS (on Ammazon EC2 a Windows node is a lot more 
expensive than a Linux one) didn't justify the time needed to get everything 
running.

Chris

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Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Oktober 2012 21:55
An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Flex Linux support




On 10/2/12 12:16 PM, "Robert Szabo" <robert.sz...@adaptivemobile.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Being that this is now being moved to an apache license. I do not see 
> why some linux support could not be provided so long as there is enough 
> support for it.
> Maybe feature lacking but still available.

FlashBuilder has not been donated (and will not be donated) to Apache Flex.
So, if you want a Linux IDE, you will need to write (plugins) for some Linux 
IDE.

If you want to build an SDK from sources, which is currently the only official 
"release" from Apache, Linux isn't currently supported because we need tools 
like PixelBender Toolkit to build some parts of the framework and there is no 
Linux version.

If you want to use ant scripts or other mechanisms to build SWFs and want them 
to run on Linux players, that might be possible.  I don't know how well it 
works today but this has been discussed in the past.  Search for emails from 
Oleg (aka Left Right). He's the biggest Linux advocate on the mailing list.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aYo ~ [mailto:a...@binitie.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 3:01 PM
> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Flex Linux support
> 
> Hi Robert,
> There are a number of us here who are in the same boat with you. I 
> regretfully have to tell you that moving your development to windows 
> seems to be the only option at the moment if you want to take 
> advantage of all the new features being developed. I have explored all 
> the options you have stated and currently I also develop with FDT5 in 
> Linux Mint KDE. However I have had to set up a windows dev environment 
> to be able to work with the newer flash player and all the new 
> features. I still hope (albeit a fading
> hope) that someday there will be a move towards resurrecting the 
> support for developers who prefer Linux as a development platform. For 
> the moment though no cigar.
> ~a~
> www.ayobinitie.com
> http://mrbinitie.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> On 2 October 2012 19:37, Robert Szabo <robert.sz...@adaptivemobile.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have been looking into this and am currently searching for linux support.
>> 
>> I have been using FlexBuilder for Linux, then I ended up going to 
>> fb4linux
>> (http://code.google.com/p/fb4linux/) for the 4.5 SDK with 
>> eclipse-indigo as Adobe stopped supporting linux when it introduced 
>> FlashBuilder.
>> 
>> This has worked fine and I am happy to continue working that way, but 
>> it would seem that there will be no bugfixes/enhancements going forward.
>> 
>> The notable items lacking with the fb4linux approach is:
>> 
>> 
>> -          Visual Designer Mode
>> 
>> -          States view
>> 
>> -          profiler
>> Last time I checked FlashBuilder was eclipse based, so also curious 
>> if maintaining a Flashbuilder plugin was in the cards.
>> 
>> I am aware that the flash-debugger is only available for linux in a 
>> 32 bit binary and there is a workaround for that.
>> 
>> What I would like to confirm is if there is any future with Flex and 
>> Linux  in the roadmap and if I  can continue developing and deploying 
>> in a linux environment.
>> 
>> Can someone shed some light on this?
>> 
>> Bob Szabo
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