On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Maurice, we have a pretty good idea of why Jenkins on builds.a.o > is not able to build the Flex SDK. Unfortunately, it isn't clear that > infra knows how to fix it or can fix it given how they want to run that > server. > I will give Gavin a day or so and then ping him again. I think we should be able to get a fix for this soon. > > Meanwhile, I'm still trying to get access to the PB compiler source, but > one person I talked to said that Alchemy-based shaders will outperform PB > shaders. So, one potential way to solve this problem is to replace our > shaders with Alchemy shaders. I have no idea how hard that would be. > Anybody think they can do it quickly? > It should be possible, but that quickly removes FP 10.2, 10.3 and AIR 2.6,27 from the supported runtimes list. Alchemy/FlasCC is supported only FP 11.0/AIR 3.0 and up [1]. Is this something we want to do? >From an enterprise support point of view, keeping support for 10.2 and 10.3 can only benefit us. I wouldnt want to give this up for a few shaders. > > Another option, which is a variant of what Maurice was proposing yesterday > is that we quickly create an official release package that contains just > the PBK files. Then the corresponding convenience binary package would > have the PBJ files. We call this an upstream package that only is > supported on Mac and Win. We would not use CI for this release. > > Then we adjust the SDK build to use this upstream package. This is make > more official the workaround we are using for Linux and bring Linux up to > par with Mac and Win. Yes, the installer has to change as well, but > hopefully I'll have new installer capability ready shortly anyway that > should make it easier for us to make these changes. > Works for me. We have not changed the pbk files forever, yet we keep compiling them everytime and run into issues like these often. BTW, we already have a job on builds.apache.org that does this [2] > > Thoughts? > -Alex > > [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/flascc/ [2] https://builds.apache.org/job/flex-sdk_pixelbender/
