Linux Editor support?

Hey folks,

I'm super excited to see progress on Tiny and I'd love to see the editor add linux support.

Without any context or knowledge of the problem, looking at the Tiny package, it seems like there's a few native binaries which are what's keeping this from working in the linux editor. In "/Tiny/Tools" it looks like there's a handful of off-the-shell libraries, which would be easy to get linux ports of then the TinyToolsManager, which I'm guessing is some custom bridge between the editor and the browser.

I'm sure this is low priority, but I'm curious if much thought has been given to this and if it's something I should intend to work around!

Thanks!
abe

 

Quick update, taking a closer look, it's clear that TinyToolsManager is a wrapped NodeJS application bundled with the tool pkg which means a large amount, if not all, the JavaScript is actually visible if you just `cat` the exe.

Regardless, I'm not interested in attempting to manually extract that source. However, the good news is that since it's all NodeJS it should be pretty easy to repackage for linux.

Other than that, things seem to be spinning up and working with minor changes to the Tiny package (lots of #if's need tweaking).

However, I'm optimistic that if this gets open-sourced it would be reasonably easy to add Linux support if the core team is too busy.

 

Hey @robertg_unity, I absolutely agree, it's a better experience!

As someone who also works on developer tools (I work on Firebase) I know exactly how big of pain distributing node tools to non-node devs can be.

Anywho, thanks for the quick response, I'll stop poking around for now because I'm sure things will change significantly between now and release so any hacks I could potentially do will just be wasted and since a linux version is coming, I'll just wait patiently!

Again, great work - I'm super excited to dive in.