> From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: 13 January 2012 10:49 > > I also seem to recall from some tweets that HaXe doesn't have support for libraries, right? > So if you want to include third-party code, your only option is to include the sources. > Or did I understand this wrong?
You are correct Roland. "libraries" in haXe are just collections of source files. It cannot compile source to a language-agnostic binary library format. This wouldn't affect the Apache Flex SDK at least to begin with as I don't think as it's not dependent on 3rd party libraries. It could become a problem in the future though if we did go down the haXe route. There was a significant effect with this though if we did release a haXe-based SDK. Anyone else using haXe to build upon the SDK would need all of the Flex source files, not the SWCs and the compiler would recompile Flex every time. From crude tests I did with haXe, the need to recompile the whole SDK every time you built you haXe-based project potentially added 1 - 2 minutes to the compile time. David.
