From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: 18 January 2012 00:08 > > 1) Falcon is intended to serve not only as the compiler for FB, > but as the code-model service for FB's code intelligence. > 2) The version of FB that integrates Falcon will not be designed > to use a different version of Falcon for different versions of the SDK. > This is different than today, where FB uses the MXMLC from the > SDK version for your project.
> ... That work will likely not be fully complete at the time of donation. The more I read about Falcon, the more concerned I become about it. I don't like the idea that we will have to wait six months for a half-working compiler, presumably with no APIs, documentation etc provided beforehand. There is huge risks associated with this: there is a great danger that we will lose too much community momentum in that time and we would have to put a great deal of trust into Adobe to deliver during a period of significant upheaval and ventures into the unknown.. Should we just ignore Falcon and instead consider a major overhaul of mxmlc, or even a completely new compiler? I guess it depends on how long we have to wait to get access to the mxmlc source and docs as to what the best way forward is. David.
