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
