>The basic idea is that our design goals have changed significantly since >Flex 3, and we should design a framework for those new goals and sacrifice >some backward compatibility. Trying to carry all of our legacy forward is >probably not going to make it successful.
I totally agree ; I'm a 5-years experienced Flex 3 developper and there are so many stuffs I want to change in the core components in order to make them more modular, and not only MVC ; THE question is : which legacy code will not be supported? do we decide on the fly or can propose/vote for stuff we know we do not want anymore? On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Michael Schmalle <m...@teotigraphix.com>wrote: > > >> On 1/10/12 3:16 PM, "Carlos Rovira" <carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com**> >> wrote: >> >> Alex, IMO, there was a huge necesity for the new spark component set due >>> to >>> multiple problems in MX. God methods with lots of mixed code and without >>> ante separation of concerns that produces lots of lines of code, very >>> poorly design that makes very difficult or impossible to extend the code, >>> etc.. >>> >> I agree that MX had lots of issues. Could they have been solved >> incrementally vs building a whole new set? We know for sure that Adobe >> was >> unable to complete the new Spark set over several years. >> >> Note that at the same time I'm saying we could have incrementally fixed >> MX, >> I am also saying I'm going to start my own new set in my whiteboard space. >> So I'm not saying that incremental is always the way to go, I was >> supporting >> Doug claiming that Spark was largely tied to FC. >> > > Hearing this from you now it would explain why in the beginning the Spark > set was small, lightweight and manageable and then all the sudden the > classes got huge and out of control. I stand corrected that there wasn't an > agenda building that set. > > To bad, wasted a lot of developers time just trying to make a product that > is dead now. Not like we as component developers had any choice in the > matter, now we do. > > Mike > > > > >
