Hi Erik, I'm with Mike on this one. Lead and others will follow. I for one plan to stick around the compiler and mostly the JS generation. I've still to find the time to dive deep into your approach, but I'll be working on it for sure. You can definitely count me in.
Cheers, Chema 2012/12/14 Michael Schmalle <apa...@teotigraphix.com> > Erik, > > > So, unless there's people out there that are willing to >> contribute to Alex's (and now my) approach to getting from AS to JS, >> my time is spend better helping out on another part of the project. >> > > Saying this kindof pisses me off. I just spent the last week writing a > compiler that will allow us to do any type of cross compile we want. > > Dude, you gotta stick to your guns man! If what you decided on for the > time being is goog, the use it! Frank can have his opinion but, you are > doing something and that means you need answers which you sought out. > > If you research me a bit, I was a component developer since 2003. To say > you will not get help with the component framework is bs. I'm right here, > really how many people does it take to make something in the world. Right > mow a bunch of people would muddle stuff up. > > I remember spouting the same crap back in January when I left the project > for 8 months this year. What I realized is if there was one thing I wanted > to do, it's allow AS3 to run on something other than the Flash Player. This > is my main goal, why? I have no freaking reason other than I have to much > experience in AS3 and the like to throw it away for some "new" language, > blah blah. > > What I am trying to do here is make the lower level. You cannot expect a > lot of people to help out here, they just don't have a clue what is going > on. Your a leader, lead my friend and keep going, I will join up when I get > the compiler working correctly in the prototype. > > Mike > > > > > Quoting Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl>: > > I'm not sitting here feeling sorry for myself, I actually learned a >> lot setting up the current approach. I'm just wondering if it is worth >> my time to pursue this avenue when everyone else seems more interested >> in going in a (as far as I understand) completely different direction. >> Getting this "done" is a major project which I cannot get done on my >> own. So, unless there's people out there that are willing to >> contribute to Alex's (and now my) approach to getting from AS to JS, >> my time is spend better helping out on another part of the project. >> >> EdB >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> So, basically, nobody loves the "goog" approach I spend the last weeks >>> working on (based mostly on feedback from the various discussion on >>> the list). >>> >>> Or, let me rephrase, nobody cares enough to contribute to it? >>> >>> EdB >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Frank Wienberg <fr...@jangaroo.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This is great news, Mike! I will also try to dig into your code this >>>> weekend. >>>> In the meantime, I've been busy figuring out the "essence" of a new >>>> JavaScript runtime format that uses the principles described in my blog, >>>> but relies on RequireJS (not goog!) and ECMAScript 5 API, making it way >>>> more concise than the current Jangaroo Runtime. For IE8 and other >>>> non-ES5 >>>> browsers, we would then use polyfills for all ES5 functions used. >>>> Let's see if I can get an approval from my company to contribute; if it >>>> takes too long, I'd blog about the concepts and you or someone else >>>> would >>>> have to implement them. >>>> Greetings >>>> -Frank- >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Michael Schmalle >>>> <apa...@teotigraphix.com>**wrote: >>>> >>>> Not really, >>>>> >>>>> I rebuilt everything from scratch. Yes I copied about half the code in >>>>> pieces. I purposely put it all back together myself so I knew what was >>>>> going on. So every class in the committed code was assembled by me, to >>>>> figure out it's function if relevant to the new design. >>>>> >>>>> Besides most of it had either be deleted of changed because I am not >>>>> targeting SWF what so ever. >>>>> >>>>> I tried to stick with the same base implementation so we kept the >>>>> multi-threaded Falcon parsing. >>>>> >>>>> Take a look at the org.apache.flex.compiler.****internal.js.codegen >>>>> package. >>>>> >>>>> Specifically ASBlockWalker from that class alone you should see that >>>>> this >>>>> is a completely different implementation. >>>>> >>>>> A note to others looking at the code, in the ASBlockWalker I have mixed >>>>> some javascript emitting specific to the closure compiler. I want to >>>>> change >>>>> this and have a base class not dependent on anything but to be able to >>>>> override it. >>>>> >>>>> Case in point, most expressions and statements map the same in AS to >>>>> JS, >>>>> so having a base implementation not tied to anything will be a positive >>>>> thing. I also don't like mixing design specific things in the base >>>>> traversing class, another reason why I want an abstract base or two. >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, very prototype code and I reserve the right to yank things >>>>> around. >>>>> :) I just wanted to get it up to show others there might be an easier >>>>> and >>>>> more flexible way to get to where we need to go without the BURM. >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Quoting Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: >>>>> >>>>> I will try to look this weekend. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Can you briefly describe the important files to look at? Did you >>>>>> copy the >>>>>> FalconJS files then do most of your work in a few of them? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> -Alex >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 12/13/12 3:37 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <apa...@teotigraphix.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Well, I spent the last 4 days working on this to where it was >>>>>>> something we all could start talking about. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is it viable?, I really think so. I have spent a lot of time >>>>>>> tinkering >>>>>>> with the framework, take a look. It's in my whiteboard for now under >>>>>>> 2 >>>>>>> Eclipse projects. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I know there was just a discussion about .project files but I >>>>>>> committed the .project and .classpath for both application and test >>>>>>> project, just like the rest of Falcon. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm working on more documentation. A thing to note about the code, my >>>>>>> goal is to product ActionScript first, I will explain my thinking >>>>>>> later but, since I'm the one putting this together, that is what I >>>>>>> decided was best for testing first. Once we get all ActionScript >>>>>>> generating, we start overriding things for JavaScript specific >>>>>>> implementations. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Source [0] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Right now I have 103 unit tests ALL passing for expressions and >>>>>>> statements. Its a good start. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Note; I have not don't a build file, if anybody wants to go for it. >>>>>>> Please, I hate them. :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Peace, >>>>>>> Mike >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - [0] https://svn.apache.org/repos/****asf/incubator/flex/** >>>>>>> whiteboard/**<https://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/incubator/flex/whiteboard/**> >>>>>>> mschmalle/<https://svn.apache.**org/repos/asf/incubator/flex/** >>>>>>> whiteboard/mschmalle/<https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/flex/whiteboard/mschmalle/> >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Alex Harui >>>>>> Flex SDK Team >>>>>> Adobe Systems, Inc. >>>>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> Michael Schmalle - Teoti Graphix, LLC >>>>> http://www.teotigraphix.com >>>>> http://blog.teotigraphix.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ix Multimedia Software >>> >>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>> >>> T. 06-51952295 >>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ix Multimedia Software >> >> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >> 3521 VB Utrecht >> >> T. 06-51952295 >> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >> >> > -- > Michael Schmalle - Teoti Graphix, LLC > http://www.teotigraphix.com > http://blog.teotigraphix.com > >
