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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:19:36 -0700
Subject: RE: Is there anything the community can do to help you testing or
 documenting Falcon and the build process?
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> 0. Get the MXML handling working.

Sorry, that isn't my 0th priority. If you can't even run mxmlc, it doesn't =
matter whether mxmlc compiles MXML properly. And if people can't understand=
 how to build Falcon, then no one will be able to help me complete MXML. Fi=
nally, the ActionScript side of the compiler is equally important given tha=
t most people's MXML files have large amounts of ActionScript.

- Gordon


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:21 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Raju Bitter
Subject: Re: Is there anything the community can do to help you testing or =
documenting Falcon and the build process?


On 9/12/12 10:52 AM, "Gordon Smith" <gosmith@adobe.com> wrote:

> My top priorities currently are:
0. Get the MXML handling working.
>=20
> 1. Get the top-level Ant targets working properly. For example, 'ant java=
doc'
> currently produces compilation errors, probably due to a classpath=20
> problem, and 'ant main' produces an mxmlc which doesn't work due to=20
> another classpath problem that you noticed.
>=20
> 2. Document the build process, either on wiki pages or in the README=20
> file, so that people understand what environment variables need to be=20
> set and what Ant targets to use.
>=20
> 3. Create JUnit tests in which Falcon builds each of the SDK SWCs. As=20
> part of this I want to change the SDK build scripts so that the=20
> <compc> tasks don't have a bunch of configuration but instead simply=20
> load a config file. Then the JUnit test can use the same config file=20
> to compile the SWC in a debuggable way by calling Falcon's COMPC.main() e=
ntry point.
>=20
> 4. Update the SDK code to suit Falcon, because it is stricter than the=20
> old compiler.
>=20
> 5. Log bugs for any SDK code that Falcon barfs on (either throwing=20
> Java exceptions or reporting spurious errors or warnings).
>=20
> 6. Fix those bugs.
>=20
> What you like to take on the conversion of the <compc> tasks to use=20
> config files?
>=20
> - Gordon
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raju Bitter [mailto:r.bitter.mailinglists@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=20
> documenting Falcon and the build process?
>=20
> Gordon,
>=20
> 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!
>=20
> 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=20
> would be good to start working on a Wiki page describing the build=20
> process with Eclipse for Windows, OS X and Linux? I'd volunteer to=20
> help you with that, and I can imagine others would be interested as well?
>=20
> - Raju

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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui