"In FlexJS, I would expect the same ease of testing so people could enter the game. In my case, I have many difficulties to get my hands dirty, but my passion for this technology makes me continue following it. But, for others, it's not the case. We need to make things more easy to get started, and that's what I would expect from a new release...something I could donwload, install and test (no environment variables to configure, no tricky steps that makes me reach out of time and wait for another day to continue figuring how to get things work.
For, example, I know some months ago FlexJS is not requiring Flex SDK anymore...but I was testing it and I find I need it!. I think we have lots of complexity, and I would ask here that the effort to make the release would be driven towards making the release much more friendly so people could taste it, love it, and want to contribute. I think there's much more peple out there like me that want to help, but maybe because there's few time to invest or maybe by the complexity of things, we end throwing the towel without reaching the point of get the environment set up correctly since there's many things involved." I completely agree with Carlos on those points mentioned. That's exactly what's happening with me too. I wanted to check out my existing projects with FlexJS and see what errors I get so that I could at least report them. But I'm not able to setup the environment itself at first place. I was following this link https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Using+FlexJS+with+Adobe+Flash+Builder I had tried to install FlexJS a while ago, but faced some installation problems due to network in office. I tried that at home and installed. But when I created a new project(in FB 4.6) and changed the compiler to FlexJS, the workspace would just crash. I had reported this in mailing list that time. But there are so many emails everyday that it might have got missed somehow(which is very easy out of so many emails) and I couldn't get much time again to try it out and I just left it there. This morning, I again tried to install FlexJS 0.2(Jburg), but getting this error today: Installer version 3.2.0 (windows) Using Locale: en_US Fetched the SDK download mirror URL from the CGI. Unable to load http://apacheflexbuild.cloudapp.net:8080/job/FlexJS002Workaround/ws/apache-flex-flexjs-installer-config.xml Installation aborted ( I was unable to open that xml in browser too) If installation and setting up things makes it easy, then I'm sure many people(like me) will start using it. And I agree with Om too. All these days, I had been thinking that 0.0.2 was very alpha state to even try out. I had no idea that it's in a state that is worth giving a try until Alex mentioned it in email. So, something like 1.0 would strive users to give it a go and it may even exceed people's expectation. I started my career with flex\actionscript and I had no idea about how painful html\javascript was until I recently started to just get a hang of it. And there are no frameworks which are declarative and as easy as mxml\actionscript. And if we get flexjs in action, I'm sure there wont be any stopper again. But it's really a great work from all you guys out there. Thumbs Up! Cheers!
