Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-23 Thread Dimitri k.
- Original Message - From: "Dimitri k." At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project would really benefit from having some kind of early access to the new Falcon compiler, at least to undest

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-23 Thread jude
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > Maybe Falcon will do a non-NDA pre-release so you can see the code... > I think that's what all of us are asking for if we can't get the compiler any sooner. ...but I don't think you can go modify it and put it in the Apache SVN. The same

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Doug Arthur
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 2/22/12 11:34 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > >> As a developer I know that when being stuck, sometimes a clear mind >> helps. I basically just >> wanted to offer my help and was suggesting that I wasn't the only one. > And I really ap

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/22/12 11:34 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > As a developer I know that when being stuck, sometimes a clear mind > helps. I basically just > wanted to offer my help and was suggesting that I wasn't the only one. And I really appreciate your energy and contributions. And you are not the on

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 23/02/2012 04:19, Alex Harui wrote: Falcon is simply being developed as closed source in the interest of time. In fact, Gordon Smith is on the Falcon team and is monitoring the Apache Flex mailing list, but they are working on AS3. The MXML compiler code they wrote earlier is still in there, b

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/22/12 11:09 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > I mean: > Somehow it seems like there is no question to them on the path where the > Apache community could help. Aside from that: If you want to develop a > compiler for Gaming you should drop all "enterprise" features like mxml > or binding f

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/22/12 1:53 AM, "David Arno" wrote: > However, they could still provide > access to it as you describe before then. I think there is a difference between opening up the source under an Adobe license and an Apache license. The Flex code we just got into Apache this week was available on th

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 23/02/2012 03:54, Alex Harui wrote: Adobe employees involved in Apache Flex are discussing things on the Apache Flex mailing list. I guess that is common knowledge. I am saying that Adobe employees that are involved in the AS3/MXML compiler writing should be too. I mean: Somehow it seems l

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/22/12 4:16 AM, "Martin Heidegger" wrote: > On 22/02/2012 18:29, Dimitri k. wrote: >> At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior >> Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project would >> really benefit from having some kind of early acce

Re: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Heidegger
On 22/02/2012 18:29, Dimitri k. wrote: At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project would really benefit from having some kind of early access to the new Falcon compiler, at least to undestand it 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: Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Roland Zwaga
> > At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior > Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project > would really benefit from having some kind of early access to the new > Falcon compiler, at least to undestand it and to have to opportunity to > thi

Early access to Falcon compiler

2012-02-22 Thread Dimitri k.
At the Paris Flex meeting, I spoke with Thibault Imbert, who is Senior Runtimes product manager , about the fact that the Apache Flex project would really benefit from having some kind of early access to the new Falcon compiler, at least to undestand it and to have to opportunity to think about