Corona and command line support?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Does the simulator have any capability to run and build from the command line with extra switches or something that can be passed in? I have a Pro subscription.

I have my native iOS projects set up in a continuous integration environment so they all build, unit test, run static analysis, archive, and distribute to TestFlight each night.

Some of that is iOS-specific, but I’d love to at least be able to have a fresh build of a Corona project for iOS and Android generated automatically every night so I can use a shell script to push to my staging server or TestFlight instead of having to do all of that myself on demand.

#2

I believe this is a feature that we put into Enterprise.  I don’t believe this a feature of the SDK product.

Rob

#3

I believe this is a feature that we put into Enterprise.  I don’t believe this a feature of the SDK product.

Rob

#4

Why would this be a enterprise only feature? It’s hard to justify paying $80/mo for enterprise when you don’t need any other enterprisey features (Native, offline).

With the recent(ish) moves towards making the SDK free, I suppose you are planning to get more revenues through Fuse, so the need too push for upsalses shouldn’t be as high. Please reevaluate the choice to put the CLI as a part of enterprise, CI is really helpful and even more so in a multi platform environment.

#5

It’s probably not technologically feasible for one thing. Most of the SDK build process happens on our servers, not on your computer. Your local Xcode is used to sign the final app and a few other housekeeping features. The command line tools all are expecting Xcode to do the work and that’s Enterprise.

Rob

#6

Yes, I see how all that works. Still, adding a simple command switch to your Corona Simulator app that instead of opening a GUI would start the build process with parameters specified through the CLI wouldn’t be infeasible

#7

Why would this be a enterprise only feature? It’s hard to justify paying $80/mo for enterprise when you don’t need any other enterprisey features (Native, offline).

With the recent(ish) moves towards making the SDK free, I suppose you are planning to get more revenues through Fuse, so the need too push for upsalses shouldn’t be as high. Please reevaluate the choice to put the CLI as a part of enterprise, CI is really helpful and even more so in a multi platform environment.

#8

It’s probably not technologically feasible for one thing. Most of the SDK build process happens on our servers, not on your computer. Your local Xcode is used to sign the final app and a few other housekeeping features. The command line tools all are expecting Xcode to do the work and that’s Enterprise.

Rob

#9

Yes, I see how all that works. Still, adding a simple command switch to your Corona Simulator app that instead of opening a GUI would start the build process with parameters specified through the CLI wouldn’t be infeasible