On 1/8/15, 11:40 AM, "Nick Collins" <ndcoll...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On that note, Alex, do you have any word you can share with us as to when, >if ever, FB will be updated? It has been quite sometime since we have even >seen a maintenance update for it. The official Adobe document seems to be this [1], which includes the following about Flash Builder: "Development of Flash Builder continues. Adobe plans to maintain support for Flex projects in updates to Flash Builder 4.x, including additional work to ensure Apache Flex based SDKs can work within Flash Builder. Adobe will evaluate integrating an Apache-derived Falcon MXML compiler into Flash Builder if and when a suitable compiler is available from the open-source project. In order to better support future Apache-derived Flex SDKs, Design View, Data Centric Development tools, and Flash Catalyst workflows will be removed in updated 4.x versions of Flash Builder." FB is a completely different team. My personal interpretation, which is not an official Adobe interpretation in any way, is that the first sentence referenced development of FB to support game development. The rest basically says the 4.x version of FB would be updated if it could be shown that Apache Flex didn’t work. Apache Flex already found one flaw and Adobe made a patch available. I think FB releases consume significant resources so there’d have to be a significant business upside to cause another FB 4.x release. It is up to FB customers to try to enlighten Adobe as to what that upside is. What would folks want to see in another FB release? Just upgrading to newer Eclipse/Java? Open source-ing parts of FB is “possible” although I can tell you the code I’ve seen isn’t my favorite, and having “all” of it donated is unlikely as I’ve heard that there are some Adobe assets involved that Adobe wouldn’t want to donate. I’m told that non-Java language support in Eclipse is painful, but if folks feel like Eclipse is a good IDE platform and Apache Flex needs to support it and folks volunteer to work on it, I can look into seeing what parts can be made available. Personally I think the Apache Flex community is pretty busy as is, although an open source-ing of FB might be better directed to the Eclipse Foundation itself so that Apache Flex remains IDE-agnostic. Lots of folks seem to be using IntelliJ and FDT. [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html
