RE: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: John Fletcher [mailto:fletch...@gmail.com] > Sent: 27 February 2012 15:37 > > I think the argument about Linux here has distracted us from the main point, > which I feel is a valid thought: Are we better to invest into getting Flex to > compile to HTML5, or to choose to rely solely on th

RE: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:jef...@dot-com-it.com] > Sent: 27 February 2012 13:37 > > That is inaccurate. It'll be supported in Chrome; and if other browsers implement the new plugin API; those can be supported to. Is that true? Have Google said that they will make the plugin available as a sta

RE: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Jarosław Szczepankiewicz [mailto:jszczepankiew...@gmail.com] > Sent: 27 February 2012 13:18 > > You are spreading FUD. I see no justifiable reason for you to accuse me thus. Let's keep things polite please. David.

RE: Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] > Sent: 27 February 2012 13:06 > > Adobe is not dumping support for Flash for Linux. I disagree. Flash for Linux will only be available from Google, not Adobe, and will use a plugin type that only Google supports in its browser. Stripping awa

Flex -> HTML, Linux and time to say goodbye?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
As I'm sure most of you know, Adobe announced last Wednesday that they were dumping their support for Flash on Linux. For people whose business is selling Flex apps to Linux users, this is of course very bad news. What with AIR for Linux having been abandoned too, Flex's only real hope of a Linux-b

RE: Mailing list footers?

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Paul Evans [mailto:paulev...@creative-cognition.co.uk] > Sent: 27 February 2012 09:16 Can we limit the footer to 2 or 3 items at most? Or it's going to be longer than a lot of the messages. I'd go one further and request that we leave it as is, ie with no email footer. I really would pref

RE: referencing JIRA issues in code

2012-02-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Yennick Trevels [mailto:yennick.trev...@gmail.com] >Sent: 27 February 2012 07:24 > Imo we shouldn't include those comments in the code, it's already in the > SVN history and if we write a unit test when we fix something then it's covered > there also which should avoid regression bugs. I

RE: [IDEAS] Collections and Generics

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 24 February 2012 16:57 > Hello David, > > I guess you don't want to know how haXe implements generics for avm bytecode. I'm puzzled as to why you assume this to be honest. David.

RE: [IDEAS] Collections and Generics

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 24 February 2012 16:51 > ActionScript3 does not support generics. That's not strictly speaking true. AS3 supports the Vector class after all, which is a generic class. It understands instantiating an instance of a generic class. How

RE: Welcome new PPMC Member & Committer, Justin Mclean

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:jef...@dot-com-it.com] > Sent: 24 February 2012 16:48 > >> On 2/24/2012 11:40 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: >> The quickest way to become a committer or PPMC of the Flex project is >> to start opening tickets and submitting patches via JIRA. Anybody who >> does w

RE: [IDEAS] Collections and Generics

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
I have a small library of immutable collections (Tuple, OrderedList, HashMap plus type-safe versions of OrderedList and HashMap) at https://github.com/DavidArno/AS3Immutable. I'd be more than happy to donate these if we did want to build a set of collection classes into the SDK. They'd probably nee

RE: [CODE] Short cleanup

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Rui Silva [mailto:f...@rduartes.net] > Sent: 24 February 2012 12:02 > > Please restrain from using this kind of tone in your messages. > It does not help and if you're not here to help, please leave. I suspect that asking him to leave is as unhelpful to the group as the original rudenes

RE: [CODE] Short cleanup

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Left Right [mailto:olegsivo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 February 2012 11:10 > OMG!!! Seriously, you are writing SDK code and you don't know what's the > difference between using `in' operator and calling a method defined on > Object.prototype is? Interesting. Seeing someone else by rude br

RE: [RT] Wiki page for wishes - was BSON

2012-02-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Omar Gonzalez [mailto:omarg.develo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 February 2012 09:43 > > Well, I believe anyone can register to JIRA and add Feature Requests there. That is correct, but it's not intuitive how to do so. Anyone can visit the Jira, click on login and then create an account. After

RE: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-23 Thread David Arno
> From: James Ong [mailto:yanlile...@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 February 2012 17:24 > It can be confuse without semicolon when you're actually looking at thousands lines of code. I'd suggest that thousands lines of code will confuse no matter how well laid out the code ;) David.

RE: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-23 Thread David Arno
> From: JP Bader [mailto:j...@zavteq.com] > Sent: 23 February 2012 17:10 > > The only question/reference point I have is the lack of requirement for this in several other > languages I've recently been learning, i.e. Ruby, Python, Scala (IIRC). They can compile > just fine with or without ';'.

RE: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 22 February 2012 15:18 > Also another thing is that > > if(a == null) is slower than if(a) at least compiled with mxmlc. Is it really? I didn't know that. Writing code that enables a cast + comparison to happen quicker than a di

RE: Flex adopting haXe ?

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 22 February 2012 14:55 > I just remembered another thing that makes me a little mad every time I read into coding with haXe... The problem with your examples Martin is that you have the resultant code equivalent slightly wrong unfort

RE: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 22 February 2012 13:20 > I understand your point, however - the suggested compiler then would > not be able to compile Adobe ActionScript 3 code. I don't think we want to go that far! All I was suggesting was mandatory semicolons. A

RE: [gosh] On the sad tale of BNF and optional semicolons

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Left Right [mailto:olegsivo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 February 2012 13:20 I haven't fully digested all that, but a quick skim through seems to suggest that the solution used is to have the parser "magically" insert semicolons into its input token stream at certain points. Is that a fair s

RE: Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 22 February 2012 12:53 > > the ActionScript 3 specification (lol) is in the hands of Adobe and if we start changing > specification then we shouldn't call it AS3 anymore. ASApache ftw. Well Martin, see the thing is I don't think "AS

Would anyone care if we ditched support for semicolons being optional?

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
As I suspect there are many here not following the [gosh] threads, I'm repeating a question from yesterday to a wider audience. Apologies in advance if you do read those threads and just didn't care enough to comment yesterday ;) If Dimitri's great efforts to try and get us early access to the Fa

RE: [gosh] On the sad tale of BNF and optional semicolons

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
Martin & Oleg(?), Thank you for the links. Unfortunately, they just confirm my point I think unless, I've got myself completely confused. For example, taking Martin's first link (http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1153976512034/ecmascriptA3.g), the grammar is full of things like: continueStatement:

RE: ActionScript workers will come in the second half of 2012 with Flash Player "Dolores"

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Pepe [mailto:pepe.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 February 2012 11:17 > > If no one contributes to new Flex Framework, or if it's not enough though > many people contribute to new Flex Framework, Apache Flex will graduate > from Apach incubator projects as a termination. Right? I not sure i

RE: ActionScript workers will come in the second half of 2012 with Flash Player "Dolores"

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Pepe [mailto:pepe.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 February 2012 10:58 > > So, you mean that Apache Flex project develops nothing and it just keeps Flex sources, right? No, that isn't quite what I meant. :) It's a community effort. Therefore if you want something done, the best way to achieve i

RE: ActionScript workers will come in the second half of 2012 with Flash Player "Dolores"

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Pepe [mailto:pepe.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 February 2012 10:41 > > This is very good news and I'm concerning about the following two things. > > 1. New Flex Framework should support ActionScript workers as a part of framework. > > 2. The AIR framework in Flex Framework should be re-des

RE: Adobe might think of open-sourcing the Design View if there is sufficient interest

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
+1 from me too. Even if we never make use of it, we'd be mad to decline such an offer. David.

RE: [OT] Flash Platform roadmap

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: 22 February 2012 10:23 > > I have worked on exactly these types of applications as well. > Both in education and digital publishing I have exclusively encountered > Windows boxes and to a degree Apple. Never any Linux on the desktop a

RE: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
That sounds really promising Dimitri. The French guys to the rescue! :) Having thought about it, I can see why Adobe do not want to donate the compiler to Apache until it's ready. However, they could still provide access to it as you describe before then. The simplest way seems to make use of thei

RE: [OT] Flash Platform roadmap

2012-02-22 Thread David Arno
> From: Dimitri k. [mailto:k...@noos.fr] > Sent: 22 February 2012 09:08 > > No he was referring that future Flash Player linux version will be only available in Google Chrome. I can't decide if that is right or not. As the Pepper API is described as "cross-platform API for plugins for web browsers

[gosh] On the sad tale of BNF and optional semicolons

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
I have spent a bit of time over the last few days trying to define a BNF grammar for AS3. As "Left Right" predicted, it's looking like this just isn't possible. The problem is such a trivial little thing too: optional semicolons. To illustrate the problem, let me give an example piece of AS3 BNF:

[jira] [Commented] (FLEX-16) Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framework

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-16?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13212554#comment-13212554 ] David Arno commented on FLEX-16: Well spotted there Justin. That change does indeed appl

[jira] [Updated] (FLEX-16) Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framework

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-16?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] David Arno updated FLEX-16: --- Attachment: en_GB.zip Updated version, replacing "period" with "full stop."

[jira] [Updated] (FLEX-16) Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framework

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-16?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] David Arno updated FLEX-16: --- Attachment: (was: en_GB.zip) > Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framew

Update on the donation of the Automation classes

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
Adobe did their Update on Flex presentation in London yesterday. Deepa clarified Adobe's position regarding the donation of the Automation classes. I don't think this information has been posted here before, but apologies if it has and I'm just repeating old news. The Automation classes will be d

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 19:18 > > I have a prototype of a framework that leverage the zero-install capability of Flash > much better, which should eliminate the need for RSLs. Is this on your whiteboard yet so that we can all take a look? If not, I

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
> From: Haykel BEN JEMIA [mailto:hayke...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 16:00 > Talking about security, I think there is nothing being done to > prevent man-in-the-middle for JS libraries hosted by Google > for example, so it does not seem to be an issue even if JS is plain > text and eas

RE: [gosh] Compiler choice [was Goshawk language choices and more]

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
> From: Left Right [mailto:olegsivo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 16:00 > > Well, HaXe can use pre-compiled code, since maybe more then a year > ago I guess... It doesn't use SWC, but ans SWF as an input is OK. > Probably Niel can elaborate on that, or correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah sorr

RE: [gosh] Compiler choice [was Goshawk language choices and more]

2012-02-21 Thread David Arno
> From: Omar Gonzalez [mailto:omarg.develo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 15:19 > > Just wanted to point out here that according to Gordon Smith, I believe, > the statement that we would have to deal with MXML in the compiler post > donation is incorrect... I sought clarification on this

RE: [gosh] Compiler choice [was Goshhawk language choices and more]

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: niel.drumm...@googlemail.com [mailto:niel.drumm...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Niel Drummond > Sent: 20 February 2012 07:45 > > 1) Wait for falcon, projected stable release late 2012, early 2013. This to my mind is the most risky of your three options. We wait a year, then maybe get a com

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Paul Evans [mailto:paulev...@creative-cognition.co.uk] > Sent: 20 February 2012 13:53 > > Sorry - still thinking up problems rather than solutions. I think that is the best way with anything to do with security. David.

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Paul Evans [mailto:paulev...@creative-cognition.co.uk] > Sent: 20 February 2012 12:41 > i don't know enough about security, but in probing for flaws in that idea I'd approach from: I don't know much about security either. Thus why I'm questioning whether it can be done, rather than just s

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 20 February 2012 12:04 > > The flash player caches the signed RSL's differently. [1] Not sure if I'm getting confused here, but I thought we couldn't use RSLs as Adobe won't sign them? So Apache Flex will need to be based on plain, un

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Paul Evans [mailto:paulev...@creative-cognition.co.uk] > Sent: 20 February 2012 10:20 > > From previous discussion, Alex raised concern of potential exposure to a > man-in-the-middle attack - unless we find a way of getting them signed. Do they really need signing? If we generate MD5 has

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Jarosław Szczepankiewicz [mailto:jszczepankiew...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 09:44 > > caching the RSL in the browser is already used and ready (as far as > www server is properly using Etag etc. headers). Apache http is > caching static resources very well out of the box (at le

RE: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread David Arno
> From: Haykel BEN JEMIA [mailto:hayke...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2012 09:27 > > Is it possible to enhance the preloader to download required RSLs from > a central Apache repository or are there any technical or FP security issues > that would make this impossible? Unless it is technica

Re: [gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 01:35 +0200, Left Right wrote: > David, I used Metaas, and I know that grammar file... it's well, it's > wrong, and it doesn't reflect many things that happened since FP10 (Metaas > project was abandoned before FP10 was released, so, no handling for > vectors, for example, but

RE: [gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 23:03 +, Michael A. Labriola wrote: > >Dear Alex, > > > >The first rule of Apache is that if it doesn't happen here, it doesn't > >happen. Therefore either you are working on ideas that could help us better > >compile MXML code, which you are about to share with us immi

Re: [gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 23:19 +0100, Niel Drummond wrote: > I don't recommend the approach of writing a separate javascript layer - > haxe has the concept of "untyped" code blocks, and a special Dynamic type, > which is extremely useful at getting around browser incompatibilities (I > think GWT has s

Re: Project Goshawk [was Time for an Apache Flex compiler.]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:25 +0100, Roland Zwaga wrote: > By the way, > > here is the Java port of the goldparser engine: > > https://github.com/ridencww/goldengine > > it might be an idea to try out both ANTLR and goldparser > and compare the results, I'd say the fastest one we'd take ;) How abo

[gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 11:50 -0800, Alex Harui wrote: > Yes, we agree on that point. The Spark code was much faster than the MXML > descriptor tree, but I have a new proposed "descriptor" that is testing out > to be just as fast as the Spark code so I think we'll go with something like > that when

[gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 14:03 +0200, Left Right wrote: > Languages: I thought I argued my case, but I'll try to explain again, the > plugins and the "mothership" compiler need not to run inside the same > runtime - there is a traditional way to make programs cooperate - pipes, > stream, well, you kno

[gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread David Arno
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 21:48 +0200, Left Right wrote: > First of all. Why Java (JVM)? The JVM gives us many advantages: 1. Java - which whilst long in the tooth is well known and well supported and - a point that is difficult to overstate - its the language that Flash Builder and FDT and IntelliJ ar

Re: Project Goshawk [was Time for an Apache Flex compiler.]

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 12:10 -0800, Om wrote: > David, from your pdf (yeah, I read it ;-) ) > This sounds like a serious limitation - especially for Flex based library > projects which is a pretty important feature. Can you please elaborate on > the workaround you hinted in your doc? What I was thi

Re: Project Goshawk [was Time for an Apache Flex compiler.]

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 20:48 +0100, Roland Zwaga wrote: > not to throw a spanner in the works immediately but I was wondering if you > could > consider a different parser from ANTLR. There is a project called > Goldparser: > http://goldparser.org/ > From what I understand this thing is the fastest o

Project Goshawk [was Time for an Apache Flex compiler.]

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
As there was some positive feedback to the idea of creating our own compiler, I have gone ahead and started a new project on Github and created an initial design document on how I think it might work. I've taken the liberty of giving it the code name "Goshawk." If you are curious as to why, google

Re: Time for an Apache Flex compiler.

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 08:47 -0800, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > Mind communicating that last thought in a clear fashion? :P I don't > understand what your complaint is, Carol is simply explaining Adobe's time > frame, what problem so you see in such a simple statement? If one uses the abbreviation "Q4" w

Re: Time for an Apache Flex compiler.

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 05:34 -0800, Carol Frampton wrote: > Adobe's fiscal year starts in Dec so Q4 is Sept-Nov. Not wishing to shoot the messenger here, but this really does sum up Adobe's inability to think and communicate in a clear fashion... :( David.

Time for an Apache Flex compiler.

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
Yesterday Adobe published their "whitepaper" on the future of Flex. In it, they state that they'll be contributing the Falcon compiler to Apache sometime between October and December. This compiler will support AS3 only, with no support for MXML. So when we get the compiler (which as already slippe

Re: asdoc comments for flash player and SDK version numbers

2012-02-16 Thread David Arno
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:05 +1100, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > Was looking though some of the framework code and noticed that a lot of > method are marked up with comments that are imported into documents re player > version and the like. > > Here's a typical section. > * @langversion

RE: Other locales for Flex SDK

2012-02-14 Thread David Arno
> From: Maciek Sakrejda [mailto:m.sakre...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 February 2012 17:57 > > I would suggest settings that allow as many valid variations as possible > (nothing more fun than having your personal details deemed invalid by a form) > even at the cost of false negatives, and a single ve

[jira] [Commented] (FLEX-16) Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framework

2012-02-14 Thread David Arno (Commented) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-16?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13207893#comment-13207893 ] David Arno commented on FLEX-16: I have used Justin's file and created an en_GB v

[jira] [Updated] (FLEX-16) Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framework

2012-02-14 Thread David Arno (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-16?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] David Arno updated FLEX-16: --- Attachment: en_GB.zip > Missing en_AU locale for Flex SDK framew

RE: Other locales for Flex SDK

2012-02-14 Thread David Arno
> From: Justin Mclean [mailto:jus...@classsoftware.com] > Sent: 14 February 2012 13:25 > > With minimal changes (phone format and currency symbol > would be all I think) it could be converted to an en_GB locale. I have started working my way through Justin's patch to convert it to an en_GB versio

Re: SVN vs Git

2012-02-13 Thread David Arno
" Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 17:53 Subject: SVN vs Git To: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:08 AM, David Arno wrote: > We may well want to undertake > some big changes, involving lots of people who aren't committers. There's a little problem with statements like this that we need t

RE: SVN vs Git

2012-02-13 Thread David Arno
I'm definitely in agreement with Martin here. Because Apache has (very necessary) policies to control what gets committed, it is not really geared toward the potentially large community involvement that Flex might attract when we finally get a chance to get going. We may well want to undertake some

RE: [DECISION] Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks

2012-02-13 Thread David Arno
> From: Martin Heidegger [mailto:m...@leichtgewicht.at] > Sent: 13 February 2012 15:50 > The discussion about the build system is going on in another thread and in jira [1]! > On the table are Gradle (my favorite), Maven and now buildr. > Please contribute to the matching thread. Sorry about tha

RE: [DECISION] Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks

2012-02-13 Thread David Arno
> From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: 13 February 2012 15:48 > GradleFX (http://gradlefx.github.com/) was suggested as the main build system. > It uses Groovy for build syntax and convention-over-configuration > (so also no XML fiddling), we have the added benefit of havin

RE: [DECISION] Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks

2012-02-13 Thread David Arno
> From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: 13 February 2012 15:27 > > But if Maven is used for dependency management then we don't need to include > any third party stuff in our repositories. > You just reference the appropriate remote repositories and the build system will >

RE: [RT] From Singletons to Unit-testable code

2012-02-08 Thread David Arno
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: 08 February 2012 03:10 > > ... And then there are some old singletons like EffectManager that still use > static methods, which should be using Singleton instead. > > And then there is the whole debate about Singletons in general... Let's have

RE: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-02-06 Thread David Arno
> From: Rui Silva [mailto:f...@rduartes.net] > Sent: 06 February 2012 09:33 > > If anyone thinks that he/she will sway the opinion of the group simply by > speaking out his reasoning without giving actual proof of feasibility, then they're > thinking it wrong. At least, that's not what I see in

RE: Mailing list footers?

2012-02-06 Thread David Arno
> From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org] > Sent: 06 February 2012 06:46 > > I suggest adding just this: All sounds good to me. David.

Re: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-02-05 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 10:02 -0800, Doug McCune wrote: > This is incredibly false and shortsighted. In the HTML/JS world an > INCREDIBLE amount changed in 2012... Thanks for that Doug. I've gone from being a reluctant investigator of JavaScript to enthusiastic one recently as - whilst the language

Re: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5

2012-02-05 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:03 +0100, Carlos Rovira wrote: > That's key point. We should maintain and evolve Flex and stay away of > discussions and HTML5 things. > Just a final sentence: We are in 2012, and nothing changed. HTML5/JS/CSS > stack continues with the same problems and is inferior to what

Re: [Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-05 Thread David Arno
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 04:19 -0500, superabe superabe wrote: > All those interested in cross-compiling AS to JS *should* be following this > blog and giving feedback. > > http://blogs.adobe.com/bparadie/ Brilliant. Thanks for that link. David.

Re: [Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-04 Thread David Arno
> On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 07:56 +0100, Jarosław Szczepankiewicz wrote: > On the blog "all my circuits" are some details about how the translation is > going to happen. Surprisingly the progress is advanced already. But the > author sees holes to be filled by the flex community. Do you have a link to

Re: [Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-04 Thread David Arno
On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 15:22 -0800, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > What you are proposing doesn't get you around the fact that you still have > to parse the component classes into language a target platform understands. > In other words, you can't just pawn rendering to a new target, such as the > JavaScrip

Re: [Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-04 Thread David Arno
> On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 16:16 -0500, David Francis Buhler wrote: > You may wish to rephrase the question around the FalconJS compiler and > the capabilities of style-support within the FalconJS compiler when > the target is HTML5. I utterly disagree. To my mind the FalconJS compiler has a near m

RE: [Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-04 Thread David Arno
There has been zero responses to this technical email on how we might progress Flex in the past 24 hours. Discussions on the minutia of logos would have got 10s of response in that time. This worries me. It's great that we have an audience ready to whoop at pretty pictures, but does this list act

RE: [Discuss] Logo Choices

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
> From: Brent Arnold [mailto:br...@brentarnold.com] > Sent: 03 February 2012 17:23 > > The Flex community is a very opinionated group. Wait til we get to the discussion on Singletons... What discussion? They are evil and must go ... oh wait, other folk won't agree with this will they, even though

[Discussion] Flex 5 and non-SWF targets: Skinning

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
I have been thinking about how we might develop Flex so that it can target technologies other than the flash player. I have been using JavaScript as my theoretical target because it poses the most problems: we have to convert the AS3 source to another language (not bytecode), we need the output to

RE: [WTF?] final vote for logo color(s) selection

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
> From: Alexandre Madurell [mailto:alexandre.madur...@gmail.com] > Sent: 03 February 2012 15:20 > > Er... let's assume (within this context) it stands for "What The Flex?" ;) Well of course it means that. I'm shocked that anyone would think otherwise of me... ;) David.

RE: [WTF?] final vote for logo color(s) selection

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
> From: Carol Frampton [mailto:cfram...@adobe.com] > Sent: 03 February 2012 15:07 > > I do not think WTF is an appropriate title for any message on this mailing list. Just my opinion though. I suspect you are not the only one with that opinion. I get carried away all too often :) David.

RE: [WTF?] final vote for logo color(s) selection

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
> From: Peter Elst [mailto:peter.e...@gmail.com] > Sent: 03 February 2012 10:52 > > will people please move any discussion/rants to a different thread than a vote I did. I failed to take into account the fact that some people can't tell the difference between [VOTE] and [WTF?] though... :/ Davi

RE: [WTF?] final vote for logo color(s) selection

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
> From: João Fernandes [mailto:joaopedromartinsfernan...@gmail.com] > Sent: 03 February 2012 10:33 > > David we would eventually discuss that on another thread and leave this one just for voting. I started a new thread. However since someone has already voted on this thread, I clearly didn't make

RE: [WTF?] final vote for logo color(s) selection

2012-02-03 Thread David Arno
Who's brilliant idea was it to divide the single colour vote across four viable candidates, thus ensuring the multi-coloured option easily won the vote? This vote couldn't have been more rigged (no doubt completely accidently in this case) if people had tried! How about we make the vote fair?? Eit

RE: Apache Flex logo colors

2012-02-02 Thread David Arno
> From: Omar Gonzalez [mailto:omarg.develo...@gmail.com] > Sent: 02 February 2012 17:10 > > ...Then we can discuss color palettes until we're blue in the face. I propose a separate logo mailing list be created! ;) Could the PPMC just vote on it (in private?) and then tell us the result please?

RE: [DRAFT] Apache Flex Podling Incubator Status Report (February 2012)

2012-01-31 Thread David Arno
Alex, Do you think it worth adding any of the following? 1. A winning logo was chosen and that we are now working on refining it. 2. The delays to the code being made available doesn't seem to have tempered our enthusiasm and that there have been lots of discussions on people's plans and expectat

RE: [Comment] Apache Flex Podling Incubator Status Report (February 2012)

2012-01-31 Thread David Arno
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: 31 January 2012 20:39 > > ... Our mentors are great. +1 :) They are great. I don't think it an exaggeration to say that this podling would have been a complete mess, if not a disaster, if we'd been left to our own devices, rather than havin

RE: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-01-30 Thread David Arno
>From: David Francis Buhler [mailto:davidbuh...@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 January 2012 18:31 > > I would suggest starting a new thread for a "FAQ". I think it would be better if the FAQ could be put on the wiki. David.

RE: Apache Flex suggestion - dumping SWF support in favor of HTML5 - listen to Steve

2012-01-30 Thread David Arno
> From: jude [mailto:flexcapaci...@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 January 2012 16:49 > Someone needs to create a FAQ that points to these discussions. Definitely agree. Other questions to add: 1) What will Adobe donate/ what have they donated so far (to be updated as we go along) 2) How do I become a co

RE: Stubbing playerglobal.swc API

2012-01-30 Thread David Arno
> From: Doug Arthur [mailto:dougart...@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 January 2012 15:20 > Not sure we want to do that with a moving target. > Since we don't own playerglobal.swc, we should not try to replicate it. I'd argue quite the opposite. Because playerglobal.swc is a moving target, stubbing it for

RE: Apache Flex 3.7 - my planned mega-patch

2012-01-27 Thread David Arno
> From: Michael A. Labriola [mailto:labri...@digitalprimates.net] > Sent: 27 January 2012 15:41 > > I am just one vote, but you can count on my -1. > > As we discussed, I think changing everything from private to protected is > just as > bad as not putting the initial consideration into the ex

RE: Flex 5 should be divided to desktop project and mobile project

2012-01-26 Thread David Arno
> From: Pepe [mailto:pepe.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: 26 January 2012 07:45 > > Please do not try to make a hybrid architecture. I believe it will failure. > I hope Flex 5 will have two versions which are desktop version and mobile version. The key here is to use composition, rather than inheritance,

RE: Codename for the new version?

2012-01-26 Thread David Arno
> From: Rui Silva [mailto:f...@rduartes.net] > Sent: 26 January 2012 10:13 > > For me, and for the time-being, Apache Flex is a good enough codename. > After the first official release I'd give it another thought if that is something I miss. The problem I had with that is that we have three vers

RE: Codename for the new version?

2012-01-26 Thread David Arno
> From: Rodrigo Pandini [mailto:rodrigopand...@gmail.com] > Sent: 26 January 2012 02:51 > > I would like know if there are some plan to put a codename for the new version that will be release? Someone suggested calling the first Apache release "lifeboat." I like that, so it's what I have started

RE: [OT] - Apache critique

2012-01-24 Thread David Arno
> From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: 24 January 2012 16:29 > > I'm definitely not trying to discredit Apache by posting this, by the way. > I'm deliriously happy with Flex being under Apache's wing :) That article isn't surprising, but I think that Flex is better off on A

RE: [VOTE] Logo contest round #2

2012-01-23 Thread David Arno
#42 +1

RE: [Discussion] Logo contest round #2

2012-01-23 Thread David Arno
> From: Doug Arthur [mailto:dougart...@apache.org] > Sent: 23 January 2012 23:38 > > Remember, PPMC members votes are the final say, and ultimately, > that will be the what final decision becomes, but the community votes > help the PPMC members make their decisions, > One specific concern was

RE: [VOTE] Logo contest

2012-01-23 Thread David Arno
> From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:jef...@dot-com-it.com] > Sent: 23 January 2012 16:49 > > I'll also add that anyone can put together their own statistics; as the vote > was public. But of course we didn't since Rui was so publicly doing so on everyone's behalf. Then the vote finished (without an a

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