Yeah, there is an option for version hell there... On the other hand, if the libs were updated to work with Falcon, they would still work with the old compiler, if I'm not mistaken?
EdB On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >> I say don't worry too much about backwards compatibility, that is >> always a sure road to over complicating a piece of software. What I do >> think should happen is to make the compiler 'selectable'... So you >> compile with either the old one (default for some time), or the new >> one. That way people can evolve new projects to use the new compiler, >> but be able to make simple fixes to legacy projects using the old one. >> >> EdB >> >> > How would this approach affect third party libraries? > > Thanks, > Om > > > >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> > Falcon is catching subtle coding issues that MXMLC didn't catch like >> duplicate variable declarations, ambigous definitions and more. Therefore, >> there is a good chance that when you compile an existing app with Falcon >> you might have to fix some of your code. So far, I haven't seen anyone >> want to make Falcon less 'strict'. >> > >> > But I just ran into an issue with resource bundles where the current >> Falcon code reports a compile error if it can't find a bundle for a locale. >> MXMLC seems to do some magic and makes the en_US bundle also act as the >> bundle for the locale that is missing a bundle. It has to do that because >> the SDKs currently throw an error if a locale is missing a bundle. >> > >> > But is that what we want? I would think you should get a warning if a >> bundle is missing and the SDK should change its code so that if a bundle is >> missing it just falls through to the next bundle in the locale chain, if >> any. But such a change would mean that, if you compile an existing project >> against an older SDK, even Apache Flex 4.10.0, your app may throw an error >> if you are missing a bundle. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > -Alex >> >> >> >> -- >> Ix Multimedia Software >> >> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >> 3521 VB Utrecht >> >> T. 06-51952295 >> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >> -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
