2012/2/16 David Arno <da...@davidarno.org>: > Yesterday Adobe published their "whitepaper" on the future of Flex. In > it, they state that they'll be contributing the Falcon compiler to > Apache sometime between October and December. This compiler will support > AS3 only, with no support for MXML. So when we get the compiler (which > as already slipped from a summer - according to Alex I think - to winter > release,) we will then need to get our heads around how it works and > then add MXML support before we can use it as a replacement to the mxmlc > and compc compilers. > > This is not a viable timescale for Apache Flex in my opinion. Therefore > I feel we have no choice but to ignore Falcon and to start developing > our own compiler with immediate effect. I therefore want to get an idea > as to who, if anyone, here is interested in getting involved in this > initiative? > > David. > >
Well, if such an initiative is started, I'm sure a lot of people will get involved in it, myself included. What will happen to mxmlc? -- Mansour Blanco Software engineer Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/612920/mansuro Blog: zuro.blogspot.com github: https://github.com/Mansuro
