4.8 does not have FABridge support ? That s really bad .... 2012/7/25 Keith Sutton <ke...@spoon.as>
> With the successful release of 4.8.0-incubating it would be timely to have > a discussion/consensus around the priorities going forward. > > A couple of fundamental factors should be considered in this discussion: > > 1) Adobe resources are not indefinite and from statements made early > in the year it is possible they may no longer be available within > 6+/- months (plan for the worst case). Once these resources are gone > it will be significantly harder to access/transition code assets; > > 2) Successful open source projects/communities are commercially > viable, as much as open source is about cool technologies and code > it is also about having the resources to do what they want for as > long as they want; > > 3) Within the Fortune 1000 companies which has the greater installed > base and therefore need for support/transition - Flex 3; > > 4) This is not a typical open source project that grows over time, > this is a commercially viable product with a significant customer > base and ecosystem, Apache Flex does not have the luxury of time as > organizations wrestle with the decisions in the 6-12 months over > Flex versus HTML5/JS/CSS (hope is not a roadmap). > > After gleaning through emails and blog posts the following is a list of > potential things-to-do-next (please identify anything needing > addition/deletion). When considering what is a priority, ask yourself 'is > this essential to Apache Flex success beyond the next 6-12 months': > > 1) 4.6 ViewStack > 2) 4.6 Accordion > 3) 4.6 DateField > 4) 4.6 DataChooser > 5) 4.6 Enhanced DataGrid > 6) 4.6 missing automation libraries > 7) 4.6 missing fabridge > 8) 4.6 missing flash-integration > 9) 4.6 missing samples > 10) 4.6 missing embedded font support > 11) 3.x Flex SDK > 12) Flex compiler source code > 13) BlazeDS/BlazeDS.NET > 14) TLF > 15) Gravity > 16) FXG > 17) Squiggles > 18) OSMF > > Notes: > Falcon and Falcon JS are not on the list until Q4 2012 and beyond > Adobe "Not be contributing the AIR for Linux SDK, LCDS, or LCCS to Apache" > Adobe "will ensure that the Adobe Flex SDK 4.6 and prior will be supported > in future versions of Flash Player and AIR > Adobe "plans to maintain support for Flex projects in updates to Flash > Builder 4.x" >
