Sure thing!
I followed the how-to, downloaded your project and unzipped it. I'm running
Windows XP and had already installed Java 1.6 and Ant (and added to the
PATH), so I was able to run the template build right away.
First, I must say I'm a total newbie to Ant, so maybe I made some dumb
mistakes.
Anyway, my first attempt with "ant setup" resulted in an error, but my
internet connection is behaving a bit erratically lately, so probably that
explains it (couldn't catch the exact error). I re ran setup and this time I
got a succesful build.
Then I ran "ant production" and the build succeded, but when I opened the
index.html, the player complained about an IOError. I traced down the error
to the source code and realized that "Library" had not been compiled. I ran
again "ant" (no args), and then both DefaultFont.swf and Library.swf
appeared in the bin folder, so this time, I opened index.html and everything
went fine.
Reading build.xml, I noticed there were two other targets that hadn't been
built that far: test and doc. I'm not sure wether this is intentional and
you can opt to build them manually if you want or there was some error I
didn't catch.
In any case, "ant test" passed fine.
Then I tried "ant doc", but I got some errors back. It complained about
project "macro definition USE-MXMLC" being redefined in USE-TEMP.xml and
DOC.xml. (To be honest, I think I got those errors at this point, but maybe
it was a previous target I tried, not 100% sure).
I managed to "fix" that changing
<project name="macro definition MXMLC" basedir=".">
to
<project name="macro definition USE-TEMP" basedir=".">
in build/targets/USE-TEMP.xml
and
<project name="macro definition MXMLC" basedir=".">
to
<project name="macro definition DOC" basedir=".">
in build/targets/DOC.xml
I quoted "fix", because, as I said, I'm not sure if that's the right
solution since I don't have experience with Ant, though it made sense to me
and solved the problem.
After that, one problem remained with this doc target. It complained about
BUILD::debug not being defined. I've messed up a bit with command line
defines myself so I knew what the problem was. My solution was adding:
<attribute name="debug" default="true" />
and then this
<arg line='-define+=BUILD::debug,@{debug}' />
to DOC.xml, and that solved it, though it seems that hardcoding the debug
value there is probably wrong.
Aside from these minor, easy to fix problems, I think you have put together
a great tool, with a lot of potential to ease and improve project managment
and development of AS projects. Congrats!
I'll look into it more in depth as soon I have some time, since I could use
it (with some tweakings probably) for a medium/large project I'm working on.
I'll have to change / adapt a few things, I think, since my goals and
requirements for this build system are a bit more modest and I already have
some of the issues you're addressing covered by other means (such as
svn-external for managing external libs), but a lot of the macros, targets
and templates will be useful for sure (and cover things that would have
taken me a lot to get working, for sure).
Again, good work!
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2009/4/6 Niels Wolf <[email protected]>
> Let me know if you find anything missing or not working..
>
>
> On 4/6/09 5:55 PM, "Juan Pablo Califano" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Sounds cool, and I think something like this could have been useful in a
> couple of projects I've been working on.
>
> Many times I've made a "mental note" about investigating a bit ANT and
> non-IDE dependent build systems in general, but never actually did.
>
> I'll take a closer look at it as soon as I have more time.
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> Cheers
> Juan Pablo Califano
>
>
> 2009/4/6, Niels Wolf <[email protected]>:
>
> Hey.
>
> Since i can not get it up the wiki.. here just an email...
>
> Turkish Sweater is..
>
> * for medium to bigger Actionscript productions
> * collection of ANT macrodefs, targets and templates
> * OS independent (used in production on OSX and Windows XP)
> * IDE independent (you can run it from your commandline)
> * minimal in its dependencies (Java/ANT is needed)
> * helping you with third parties Actionscript libraries
> * filling the gap between nothing and ANT-Ivy, Maven or similar
>
> Working with different developers on different OS' and IDEs, frustrating
> hours of figuring out which Actionscript library is missing, bloated
> repositories with libraries that are already maintained somewhere else,
> troubles with setting up an IDE quickly just to make a tiny change and
> compile.. ended up in writing this. Now we can checkout any project from
> the
> repository, run the setup and then production to verify if its formal 'ok'.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/turkish-sweater/
>
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