Yeah just concerned with an official build number, or date, or something with numbers we can use to identify a production app back to what SDK was used to compile it. Imagine having an app released on production and a user reports a problem. We would need to reproduce the problem in a test environment. This would include using the same SDK to compile the app. Currently in Flex, we can just access its version directly which makes things faster.
If the SDK doesn't have anything like this at the moment and we did add that functionality in there, I would say let's just use a date field since it could be automated. Something like YYYYMMDD type format. -Mark K -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com.INVALID] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:02 PM To: dev@royale.apache.org Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Version property (was: Let's bump Royale version to 1.0) On 4/26/19, 4:29 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <mark.kessler....@usmc.mil.INVALID> wrote: > So far, we have not had the release scripts properly generate the right version number for the NPM artifacts. This spurred a question for me. Is there a way to find out what version number the SDK binaries are in code for Royale? Sort of like the Flex SDK mx.core.FlexVersion or at least a build date? Not at this time. IMO, runtime versioning wasn't worth the cost of all of those strings and code in the production app. Also, Royale was designed from the beginning to try to be "version-agnostic". By using loose-coupling via Beads/PAYG/ValuesManager and lots of interfaces instead of direct class references, there shouldn't be a need to deal with version incompatibilities at runtime like Flex did with the Marshall Plan and FlexVersion and more. Flex had to care about version incompatibilities because the fundamental base classes were not loosely-coupled. Flex HelloWorld was 128K not just because UIComponent was huge, but because UIComponent pulled in other classes as init-time strongly-coupled dependencies. A good thing to think about as you write Royale framework code is, "can every dependency be easily replaced"? After we hit 1.0 (and hopefully find some volunteers to write regression tests), then new APIs to existing classes will need to be considered carefully and implemented in extensions. So there will be some extension of IUIBase that has some new API instead of adding new APIs to IUIBase. I have a personal preference to use long names instead of numbers, so the extension will hopefully be called IUIBaseWithWhatever instead of IUIBase2. If you are asking about build-time versioning, we haven't done anything there either. As long as there is no impact on production apps I think it is fine for folks to contribute something if there is a need. My 2 cents, -Alex