> Can this really be possible that there is no place to configure
> Junit's
runtime environment from within Eclipse?
I looked in the workspace preferences dialog under Run/Debug >
Launching but didn't see a way to do anything useful.
- Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:52 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
On 12/7/12 3:48 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote:
> And it should NOT require any voodoo to launch Eclipse, such as a
> launch script.
Agreed
>
> I would be able to tolerate it requiring a one-time setup in the
> Eclipse workspace, but I can't find any place to configure
> environment variables there.
Can this really be possible that there is no place to configure
Junit's runtime environment from within Eclipse?
>
> - Gordon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Smith [mailto:gosm...@adobe.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:45 PM
> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>
> All unit tests (at least for Falcon) should be zero-configuration.
> You open up a file like MXMLArrayTagTests.java. You double-click the
> name of an individual test you want to debug, such as the first one,
> MXMLArrayTag_empty(), to select it. Then you right-click on it and
> choose Debug As > JUnit Test from the context menu. It should just
> work. The default debug configuration that gets created for this
> test needs to be sufficient without any additional Program Arguments
> or VM
Arguments.
>
> - Gordon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:36 PM
> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>
> The copy.sdk target is still in there if you need it.
>
> But first, wow do you use the unit tests from Eclipse? I've never
> tried it, I always use the command line. Do you set up a run config
> of some sort? If you set a FLEX_HOME in the config's environment
> does
that work?
>
> Once I understand how you use Eclipse I will try to get it to work.
>
>
> On 12/7/12 3:27 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> After trying and failing to do any Falcon work today, I'll keep
>> complaining about this. The unit tests are no longer working in
>> Eclipse. I get
>>
>> command line
>> Error: unable to open
>> 'D:\Apache\incubator\flex\falcon\trunk\compiler\generated\dist\sdk\
>> fr
>> a
>> meworks\
>> mxml-2009-manifest.xml'.
>>
>> command line
>> Error: unable to open
>> 'D:\Apache\incubator\flex\falcon\trunk\compiler\generated\dist\sdk\
>> fr
>> a
>> meworks\
>> libs\player\11.1\playerglobal.swc'.
>>
>> This is presumably because the SDK is no longer being copied into a
>> place that the unit tests can find them. The unit tests can't use
>> an environment variable to find them because it is infeasible to
>> specify that environment every time you want to make an Eclipse
>> debug config for a particular unit test.
>>
>> Is there some way to make this work in Eclipse that I don't know
>> about, so that every JUnit test "just work" without having to
>> customize a run-config or debug-config for it?
>>
>> If not, I will restore some ant targets to do the SDK copying. Alex
>> may not want to use them, but I need to.
>>
>> - Gordon
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gordon Smith
>> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 2:58 PM
>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>>
>> OK, then I'll stop complaining.
>>
>> - Gordon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:59 PM
>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>>
>> The versions in compiler/commandline already looked for FLEX_HOME
>> environment variable.
>>
>>
>> On 12/6/12 1:56 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I should have said Falcon's 'mxmlc' and 'compc' shell scripts.
>>>
>>> - Gordon
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Gordon Smith
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:55 PM
>>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>> Subject: RE: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>>>
>>> So, how does Falcon's 'asc' shell script do its job? Did you make
>>> it use an environment variable to find an SDK?
>>>
>>> - Gordon
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:40 PM
>>> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Falcon] Unit tests failing
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/6/12 12:57 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But doesn't it make it impossible to use Falcon's shell scripts,
>>>> which expect to find other things in the SDK using relative paths
>>>> from those shell scripts???
>>> You mean like the mxmlc and compc scripts? They take a FLEX_HOME
>>> environment variable and seem to be working.
>>>>
>>>> Falcon isn't going to be independent of the SDK in the sense of
>>>> being external to it. The goal is for it to replace the old
>>>> compiler
>>>> *in* the SDK. I don't want to be polluting an SDK with Falcon
>>>> until it is ready, but it made sense to me to copy whatever SDK
>>>> you want test Falcon with into Falcon's directory, so that
>>>> everything is relative to each other as it will eventually be.
>>>>
>>> I guess I haven't given up on the vision of Falcon being so
>>> independent that it doesn't have to be in every SDK release. For
>>> sure, I am currently working on a "new SDK" and I want Falcon and
>>> FalconJS to work with it. I want to finish the vision of not
>>> having to change Falcon for every version of the SDK.
>>> That would eventually allow the SDK folder to not contain any java
>>> code, and changing SDK versions becomes a matter of changing SWCs
>>> and not JARs.
>>>
>>> And I don't want to eliminate the possibility that someone will
>>> take on the effort to integrate Falcon into an IDE.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Harui
>>> Flex SDK Team
>>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Harui
>> Flex SDK Team
>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>>
>
> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
