On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > @Velo - Coming a little late to the thread, but a couple things to > consider when running the FP on Linux, especially in the context of > CI. The FP needs a windowing environment, typically via a combination > of X and Xvnc/xvfb, to run successfully on what would be traditionally > considered a headless Linux install. As you implement this feature, > you may find that users running on headless installs are receiving gtk > errors even with X installed.
Flexmojos takes care out of box that.... it launches the xvfb for flashplayer..... BTW, I think that is part of the problem, this is a new linux node, probably is missing xvfb..... will check if that is the case.... > It's important to note that running the > FP on Linux has a laundry list of dependencies as well as a restricted > set of supported distros for the 32-bit SA player. These are the > links I typically refere people to when they have install issues: > > FP 10 Linux Dependency List - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/153/tn_15380.html > Supported OS List - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/ > Man, why does linux does have to be always more complicated that it really need to be?! > > You may want to provide a disclaimer re: the dependencies and distros > that will work with the stand-alone FP debugger on Linux to help > people with setup. Although they won't have to d/l the executable, > their env will still have to be primed. I've found the most common > distros on the Ant side folks have been using are Ubuntu Server > Edition and variants of Red Hat (i.e. - RHEL, CentOS, etc.). Running > tests on desktop editions will probably go much more smoothly than in > practice for the folks using server editions. > Yeah, my main concern here is make the developer enviroment easier to setup, more reliable and compatible cross company.... on my last job I had to run time to time, poking all developers machine to ensure everybody was using the correct Flex SDK version for our ant tasks (and later our bizarre maven plugin). On flexmojos this no longer happen, since you pull flex SDK from a repository and there is no longer a easy way to screw this up (install-mojo died on the process, but ok).... now I wanna bring that to flashplayer and adl.... flashplayer seems not so hard (besides some OS related craziness)... on the other hand, adl will be way more trickier... VELO > HTH and good luck with the feature work. > We still need to sit and chat about creating a flex-test-commons to share between flexmojos and flexunit ant task.... > -Brian > > On Oct 7, 10:27 pm, Marvin Froeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > I'm trying to make flexmojos easier to run unit test, by making it > capable > > of using flashplayer from maven repo. That plus > > maven-external-dependency-plugin [1] would make flexmojos more > transparent > > for used.... eliminating the need to setup flashplayer on the OS.... > > > > But, linux is not my native environment (neither is mac). So I would > like > > to ask for volunteers that wanna to get dirty in order to get this > working. > > > > The configuration for maven-external-dependency-plugin is described [2] > > > > Unless I get some help this feature will be available on windows only, > since > > I don't have time to go linux and figure this out. > > > > VELO > > > > [1] -http://code.google.com/p/maven-external-dependency-plugin/ > > [2] - > http://github.com/Flexmojos/flexmojos/blob/flexmojos-4.x/flexmojos-pa... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Flex Mojos" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<flex-mojos%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > > http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex Mojos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/
