The goal is to donate Falcon before it is done, but it won't be before we want to cut some release from our Flex podling. Yes, Falcon looks like it could make your build script run twice as fast, but it won't be the 10x the early prototypes showed for incremental compiles from the tool.
One the other hand, MXMLC could compile twice as fast if it was compiling a more modular framework and less stuff to think about. I fully expect Falcon to become available and a major factor in the long run. On 1/5/12 11:19 AM, "Roland Zwaga" <rol...@stackandheap.com> wrote: > From what I remember from the Flex summit talks, there is a fair chance > that Adobe will release the compiler front end earlier than planned. > In that case it would be entirely possible that someone or someones in the > community will build their own MXML frontend into the compiler. Adobe can > still build their own MXML frontend and use it in Flashbuilder 2012, so > they wouldn't necessarily jeopardise their releases. All in all, they > projected they'd have the entire thing finished in 2013! We really don't > want to wait THAT long, with the community's support this could be sped up > quite a bit, plus we'll be able to build extensions that Adobe hasn't had > time to dream up :) > The fact that we can't use the compiler in Flashbuilder also doesn't > concern me too much, if we can hook it up using build scripts I'd be more > than happy to go that route for a while. > So I agree competely with the fact that the new compiler is potentially a > lot more important than the SDK, perhaps not in short-term, but in the > long-run it is going to make all the difference. > > cheers, > > Roland > > > On 5 January 2012 19:17, Michael Schmalle <m...@teotigraphix.com> wrote: > >> Quoting Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: >> >> The compiler IS the Flex SDK and to empower developers to get involved >>>> would be a huge new driving force for the architecture built to use it. >>>> >>> >> I don't agree with this. I can use the compiler to generate code for a >>> whole new framework if I want to. >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Harui >>> Flex SDK Team >>> Adobe Systems, Inc. >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >>> >> >> Ok, >> >> Poorly chosen words for exactly what you said. My point is the compiler >> spawns the empowerment I am speaking of, take the Flex SDK out of it. My >> main driving force of understanding is "the thingy that reads ActionScript3 >> source code and puts it into a model AST hopefully that a developer like >> myself could use to create anything". >> >> This parallels what you said Alex, "I can use the compiler to generate >> code for a whole new framework if I want to." >> >> I have been vocal on this because I just can imagine what we can do with a >> pure AS3 model compiled by the Flacon parser. I am not to concerned about >> MXML because that is actually XML that could be converted into AST that is >> used by the actual parser, I have done this in my own projects. >> >> I also get that Adobe has plans for it, so I will say no more on this >> topic at this time. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> > -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
