On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 15:30, Raju Bitter <rajubit...@googlemail.com> wrote: >... > 2) Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) > In November 2006 Adobe open source the Flash Player Script engine: > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html > Is the source code of Tamarin still the current version of the Action Script > Virtual Machine in Flash Player 11? If there is a new version of the AVM > (2+), will that be contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as well? > > It doesn't really make sense to only contribute a compiler, if there is no > open source implementation of a runtime/scripting engine available, but that > might only be my personal view. If the community would decide to create a an > open standards based runtime for Flex, would that mean the community would > have to start from zero?
I think that's just your personal view :-) There is a ton of open source code written to work against Oracle's RDBMS, or Windows' .NET runtime, or Apple's iOS. I see no problem with Apache Flex targeting a proprietary environment. > 3) Commercial support for Apache Flex > Does Adobe plan to offer support for an Apache Flex product? If yes, what > kind of support would be planned. I read somewhere that Adobe will not offer > any support for Flex 4.6+ to new customers, but I'm not sure, if that's > still the current plan. I think this is orthogonal/unrelated to the Apache Flex proposal. > 4) Flash Player > Are there any plans to open source a stripped-down version of Flash Player, > e.g. the discontinued version of Flash Player for mobile) in the future > (similar to the pure open source Flex SDK vs. the commercial SDK)? The > Apache community could continue working on a browser-based mobile runtime > for Apache Flex, if that was the case. Likewise. > I hope I don't sound to skeptical here, but Adobe Flex is quite different > from most Apache projects I've been in contact with. It's a powerful > compiler with an interesting language, but it looks like the output of the > compiler can only be used with Adobe-owned proprietary software at the > moment. As I mentioned above, I don't see this as a problem whatsoever. And even if *some* people have a problem with it, there is a huge committer list of people who obviously have zero problem with that fact. The Foundation is here to provide support to communities, rather than block them on philosophical rationales. (IMO :-) So if a community wants to build up around Apache Flex, then we do what we can to help them. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
