Let me ask you this first: what, in your opinion, is Flex? EdB
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:12 PM, sébastien Paturel <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com>wrote: > With that logic, why flex in AS4, or flex in Haxe or whatever not AS3, > would make it not to be Flex anymore? > > I understand the point about the large existing code base in AS3 and the > need to port to another language. > But when Adobe chose to change from AS2 to AS3 a lot of people ported > their code, because it was required. > When Adobe changed to Spark, it also needed some rewrite to be able to > gain on new capabilities. > And if we start a rewrite from scratch, it will be hard to keep everything > even in AS3 usable as is or am i wrong? > And if people want to use flex for cross platform, and especially HTML5, > you saif yourself that if we wanted to be able to get existing flex apps > and compile them directly to HTML5 was a dream. > Meaning that if people want to gain from new flex capabilities, it will be > with new project code, whether it is AS3 or something else. > > The questions are: > - Do we have efficient solutions to keep AS3 and be able to cross compile > to every platforms swf, HTML5, native iOS and native Android? > For example using Haxe gives a lot of advantages in that regard because > theres already a lot of work done for cross platform port and efficiency, > and theres a large community around it. > The essence of flex is more to be cross platform, than it is AS3 right? so > if we don't have efficient solution to cross compile AS3 to platforms other > than Adobe runtimes, its a matter of life and death choice: > do we prefer keep it in AS3 to keep the existing third party code base, or > do we want to survive with new language and stay cross platform but require > some rewrites. > > - Do we want flex to be tight to an abandonned language as AS3? It is like > if you were trying to keep an AS2 framework in an AS3 world. > > - Don't we want Apache flex to be as free as possible and get rid of Adobe > technology dependency, meaning AS, flash player, and AIR? > > > Le 15/11/2012 22:26, Alex Harui a écrit : > > >> >> On 11/15/12 12:24 PM, "sébastien Paturel" <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So it means that Flex in AS2 was not flex? >>> >> It was then, but now now. >> >>> >>> Le 15/11/2012 20:50, Alex Harui a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> On 11/15/12 11:44 AM, "sébastien Paturel" <sebpatu.f...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Why do you thing that using AS4 is the better choice? >>>>> It brings me back to the thread (what is the essence of Flex?) In my >>>>> opinion, flex is not tight to actionscript. >>>>> >>>> IMO, Flex is AS3. My assumption is that there are large bodies of AS >>>> business logic that folks are not wanting to port to something else. Of >>>> course, that assumption could be incorrect. >>>> >>>> > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
