Hi, in my personal opinion Repeaters support should be discontinued in Falcon. It looks like an "intrusive" feature, don't know if it's worth the effort to implement it, its mantainance costs and the related code complexity growth (energy that could be put somewhere else).
And, old projects still heavily using them have could always continue using the old compiler, and they probably will anyway. (just my 2 cents) 2013/9/4 Carlos Rovira <carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com> > Hi Alex, > > although I hate Repeaters and does not use it since many years ago, I must > to say that Repeaters are everywhere. So I'm afraid that Falcon will need > that things to make it production ready. If we want to be able to use it in > old projects...If the plan is only use it for new ones, I'm sure that it > would be even better so Repeater will be unavailable for falcon projects :) > > > 2013/9/4 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > > > In my tour through Falcon to get BasicTests to run, I saw there were > > several things that MXMLC could do that were un-implemented. OTOH the > > list was: > > > > -Function data-binding > > -XML data-binding > > -Repeaters > > > > There may be more. I got enough of function data-binding to work to get > > BasicTests to run, but it won't work in the general case yet. But I > think > > it should be somewhat straightforward to do. > > > > I haven't looked into getting XML data-binding to work. I do know that > > XML data-binding is very Flash-specific. Flash XML nodes support some > > sort of change notification. I don't see any way for us to support this > > in FlexJS, so for FlexJS, I'm thinking we'll simply say you can't use XML > > data-binding and maybe add a compiler option to warn where you use it. > > > > Repeaters generate some pretty complicated code, IIRC. I think Adobe > > would have deprecated it if we could. > > > > So the question is: Can we make Falcon releases without full > > implementation of these features? Can we get away with never supporting > > Repeater? > > > > -Alex > > > > > > > -- > Carlos Rovira > Director de Tecnología > M: +34 607 22 60 05 > F: +34 912 94 80 80 > http://www.codeoscopic.com > http://www.directwriter.es > http://www.avant2.es >
