...and its great to see a thread with this title, good job! :)
2013/9/4 Cosma Colanicchia <cosma...@gmail.com> > 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 >> > >
