Inside JetBrains nothing has changed and nothing is going to change.
I'd say that open-sourcing was inspired by the members of the Apache
Flex Community who fought against IntelliJ IDEA as a black box trying to
make it work with Flex JS and Flexmojos 7. Here's the last comment that
triggered the decision: [1].
idea ultimate plugins not open sourced could make the flex part obsolete
Not sure how you could read my statement this way :). I only explained
that open-sourcing in this case doesn't mean that Flex support will work
in IntelliJ IDEA Community. Inside JetBrains Flex support remains in the
main repository and, as I said, nothing changes at all.
Alex
[1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-140467#comment=27-1049002
On 08.09.2015 22:35, Carlos Rovira wrote:
Hi Alexander,
hope you could share a bit more about this open source movement. Talking
about myself, can't say right now what to think, if this is good for the
community or not (maybe is the last part what makes me doubt about the
possible benefits). Please, could you share more about the JetBrains
decision of open sourcing Flex plugin?
For example, the last statement makes me think that idea ultimate plugins
not open sourced could make the flex part obsolete in few months/years
(supposing that making flex part OS means, "end of the official work and
support") if there's some API changes that are not propagated to IDEA.
So,...could we expect Flex plugins stay in Ultimate for the long term? and
evolve with IDEA?
I think IDEA is right now "The IDE" for Flex development, and many of us
rely in it for making our Flex Business, so hope we could get some more
info about what means for all of us in the following months - years.
Thanks for any more insight on this.
2015-09-08 21:12 GMT+02:00 Alexander Doroshko <
alexander.doros...@jetbrains.com>:
Hi Apache Flex Community,
I'm pleased to announce that Flex support in IntelliJ IDEA has just gone
open-source!
Here you'll find instructions how to setup the 'flex-plugin' project [1].
Any questions are welcome in this mailing list and in the IntelliJ IDEA
forum [2].
Best regards,
Alexander Doroshko
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
P.S. Flex plugin source code depends on several IntelliJ IDEA plugins that
are not open-sourced, so it can't be included in IntelliJ IDEA Community
Edition. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate remains the only IDE with the Flex support.
[1]
https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/blob/master/flex/readme.txt
[2] https://devnet.jetbrains.com/community/idea
