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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:23:12 +0200
Subject: AW: [OT] Current status on Flexunit4?
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Hi Carlos,

well I think that after Flex becoming an ASF project it sounds sensible to =
think about moving a maven plugin for building flex there too. Currently I =
think it wouldn't be the best option to simply move Flexmojos under the hoo=
d of the ASF. And after all Velo would have to give his Ok for that.

Flexmojos in its current state supports building Flex projects starting wit=
h Flex 2.0.1.180927 and hereby is full of code handling all this downgradin=
g.=20

Second thing is that Flexmojos includes a lot of other stuff that is also n=
ot under the hood of the ASF.=20

Third and in my opinion the thing that sometimes disturbs me most, is that =
flexmojos is far from the simple "compile this stuff into an swf for me ple=
ase" tool. During time it has grown to support more and more stuff. This ma=
kes it difficult for tool providers to validate all the configuration optio=
ns. For example IntelliJ complains about me not setting a storepass config =
option, which is actually only needed when packaging Air applications. So s=
plitting this up into a simple flex-compiler and air-packaging plugin would=
 allow configuration support to be a lot cleaner. =20

The solution I would opt on would be do two steps:
- Start publishing official Mavenized Flex SDKs.
- Create a new set of lightweight maven plugins each with its individual pu=
rpose.

For the first step I could provide you with my Generator, that I am current=
ly working on (Almost finished). You could evaluate the resulting FDKs and =
fine-tune them, if you think they need optimizing. These FDKs should then b=
e officially hosted on the ASF Maven servers. After this is done these FDKs=
 would then be the base for building a set of lightweight maven plugins. Ea=
ch one dealing with its individual part of a flex projects build lifecycle:
- Compiling AS and MXML files to SWFs and SWCs (maven-flex-compiler-plugin)
- Code Generation (maven-flex-code-generator-plugin)
- UnitTesting (maven-flex-unittest-plugin)
- Air Packaging (maven-air-packaging-plugin)
- Optimizing the SWFs and SWCs (maven-flex-optimizer-plugin)
- Deploying all needed Flex artifacts in a WAR project (maven-flex-war-depl=
oyment-plugin)
- ...
The good thing about this would be that they could be developed, maintained=
, versioned and released independently.

I would be more than glad to help working on this and even already have a b=
unch of improvements I would like to introduce while doing so. Most of thes=
e would make it necessary for me to re-implement quite some portions of Fle=
xmojos anyway. =09

Chris


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n Carlos Rovira
Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. August 2012 18:43
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Betreff: Re: [OT] Current status on Flexunit4?

Hi Chris,

could flexmojos be as well in ASF? (only a thought ;))

best,

Carlos

2012/8/26 Omar Gonzalez <omarg.developer@gmail.com>:
> On Sunday, August 26, 2012, christofer.dutz@c-ware.de wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This topic might be a liitle off-topic, but as I have read quite a=20
>> few statements on Adobe and Flexunit here, I thougt it would be the=20
>> best place to ask. As it seems that the Flexunit.org mailinglist=20
>> isn't really active anymore.
>>
>> I just finished some work on Flexmojos unittesting support,=20
>> especially supporting parametrized tests in conjunction with=20
>> Flexunit4. Currently I don't want to push my changes back to FMs=20
>> trunk, because I am not quite sure what the current status on Flexunit i=
s.
>>
>> Currently Flexmojos supports two flex unit testing frameworks called=20
>> "flexunit"
>> - com.adobe.flexunit:flexunit:0.85:swc  (called flexunit in FM)
>> - com.adobe.flexunit:flexunit: 4.0-beta-2:swc (called flexunit4 in=20
>> FM) I am quite unsure about the later one of them. On the Project=20
>> page http://www.flexunit.org/ I can see no reference to adobe at all.=20
>> Even the package structure is different and all refer to=20
>> "org.flexunit". So I'm guessing this is a second project unluckily=20
>> also called "Flexunit". Am I correct about this? In this case the=20
>> current groupId used in FM shouldn't be "com.apache.flexunit" but=20
>> something different . but what should it be instead?
>> My second area of uncertainty regarding flexunit (from flexunit.org)=20
>> is what the latest version is. The Blog on the page claims to be 4.1=20
>> RC2, but the download page states 4.1 ("stable" without the RC2).
>> Assuming the flexunit.org project is different from adobes project=20
>> and that RC2 has become the final release I was thinking about using=20
>> org.flexunit:flexunit:4.1.0:swc as version and would like to have=20
>> this published in a public repo.
>>
>> It would be great if you could help me sort this out.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> [ C h r i s t o f e r  D u t z ]
>>
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>> Inhaber
>> Dipl. Inf. Christofer Dutz
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>>
>>
>>
> Michael Labriola and Digital Primates are currently in the process of=20
> making the software grant to the ASF and FlexUnit will soon be in=20
> Apache repositories. I would sit tight. ;)
>
> -omar


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