> I guess it depends on how long we have to wait to get access to the mxmlc > source
Well, you don't have to wait until it gets into Apache. It's been available for years at http://opensource.adobe.com/flex. > 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. I'll try to push the idea the we make the Javadoc for Falcon available sooner. - Gordon Smith, Adobe -----Original Message----- From: David Arno [mailto:da...@davidarno.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:00 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Falcon compiler source code / Falcon architecture 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.
