No need to hold off.  There isn't a ton of files being re-org'd.

On 11/30/12 8:19 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:

> Excellent. I'll hold off from moving until I've grokked your Wiki
> entry and everything is working again, but it's good to know we won't
> be in each other's way.
> 
> EdB
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>> I think you can just work in the develop branch.  I'm going to be in the
>> falcon folders for a while anyway (I think).
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/30/12 8:05 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've branched the root into my whiteboard.
>>> 
>>> I'm currently doing a major reorganisation of the JS framework (files,
>>> not code) and the general setup of the project. I've also started work
>>> on the 'publisher', that will take the AS, compile it to JS, add the
>>> JS framework to it and create the 'index.html'. There are empty dirs
>>> waiting for the unit tests and there is an examples directory in both
>>> the 'source' and 'published' directories. Please take a look and
>>> decide if this is something that would make sense to implement in de
>>> 'develop' branch.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> EdB
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>>> I branched my whiteboard into the root.  I decided to call it "asjs"
>>>> because
>>>> we are developing parallel as and js frameworks.  There is a develop branch
>>>> in there where we should be making our commits.
>>>> 
>>>> -Alex
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/28/12 11:21 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Are we ready to put the framework.js in the FalconJS develop branch so
>>>>>>> we can all work on it?
>>>>>> IMO, framework.js shouldn't be in the FalconJS branch.  It is as
>>>>>> independent
>>>>>> of FalconJS as any of the AS code is independent of Falcon.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would refactor framework.js into separate js files so we don't step on
>>>>>> each others toes and put it somewhere else in SVN and start adding to it
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> the .AS files.  We could start by having folks just work in my whiteboard
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> we can create a new whiteboard folder not under my name if that makes
>>>>>> folks
>>>>>> more comfortable.  I was going to branch what I have checked in for
>>>>>> further
>>>>>> modifications so what I checked in stays running.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Might I suggest a 'as2js' in the root of the repo, with branches, tags
>>>>> and trunk. In trunk (and/or branches/develop?) I would have an 'as'
>>>>> and a 'js' folder, and within each of those a 'src' and 'srcTest'...
>>>>> But that's just of the top of my head, so I'm open to suggestions ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are you planning to use FlexUnit to test the AS side?  What will you use
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> the JS side?
>>>>> 
>>>>> FlexUnit seems to make sense for the AS. I use Jasmine [1] for
>>>>> JavaScript, so that would have my preference...
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Question: I expect that we'll need to figure out a way to put the
>>>>>>> framework components through the Closure Compiler upon "publish",
>>>>>>> correct?
>>>>>> Yes, there is a missing step where we generate an index.html and collect
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> of the required JS files and minify them.  I'm hand-assembling stuff
>>>>>> right
>>>>>> now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Don't let Om hear it, or he'll start another AIR project :-) I'll give
>>>>> this some thought once we've set the rest up.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Another question: for your prototype you modified/bypassed parts of
>>>>>>> the SDK, it looks like. Does this mean that you envision 2 versions of
>>>>>>> the SDK, one for Flash Player deployment and one for web native
>>>>>>> deployment?
>>>>>> I'm not sure what you mean here.  For this new effort, I am not using
>>>>>> Apache
>>>>>> Flex 4.8 at all and have no plans to.  This is a next-generation and a
>>>>>> full
>>>>>> rewrite with different goals.  What it has in common with Flex is MXML
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> AS3 and many but not all APIs.  The idea is that for every component you
>>>>>> write in AS, you have to create its equivalent in JS.  You might be able
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> get FalconJS to help you create parts of the JS equivalent, but the parts
>>>>>> that touch the visuals pretty much have to be written differently.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This was the missing link in my understanding. We're writing a new
>>>>> SDK, fresh components on both sides of the FalconJS compiler.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'll stop here and catch my breath ;-) I like what I'm seeing so far
>>>>>>> and certainly see the possibilities going forward. I do not share your
>>>>>>> caution about creating components that are more than basic
>>>>>>> implementations of available HTML controls. But we'll cross that
>>>>>>> bridge once we have a "working" version of the JS framework hooked up
>>>>>>> to the FalconJS compiler :-) First things first, right?
>>>>>> Definitely.  My only "caution" about creating more than basic controls is
>>>>>> how long it will take to create them. My goal is to get the basic
>>>>>> unskinnable 7 (Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, TextInput, TextArea, List,
>>>>>> Label) running ASAP so folks can actually play with it.  If you have the
>>>>>> time/energy to do fancier stuff you are more than welcome to get going on
>>>>>> it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sure, first things first though, set up this sub-project, ok?
>>>>> 
>>>>> EdB
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1:
>>>>> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/unit-test-javascript-applicatio
>>>>> ns
>>>>> -w
>>>>> ith-jasmine.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
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>>>>> 3521 VB Utrecht
>>>>> 
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>>>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Alex Harui
>>>> Flex SDK Team
>>>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
>>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Alex Harui
>> Flex SDK Team
>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>> 
> 
> 

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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