I have no idea why this has been sent to me personally. I assume some
form of addressing error.

Mark


On 29/04/2019 16:41, Alex Harui wrote:
> @Mark, I'm assuming you want something in the output that identifies the 
> actual versions used.  In Royale, you may also need to identify the version 
> of the transpiler as well, and maybe the version of Google Closure.  If you 
> want to propose (or better yet, implement) a PAYG way to do that in Royale, 
> please do so.  If other folks think this will be useful, please speak up so 
> we get a sense of how important it is.  A simple hack may be to embed the 
> pom.xml file in your output as a string if you are using Maven.  If you use 
> Ant, you could grab the SDK version from build.properties or embed the 
> flex-sdk-description.xml file.
> 
> @Carlos, I couldn't understand your scenario.  Feel free to start a separate 
> thread on it.  The key aspect, as a guess, is trying to avoid code that 
> assumes that an instance is a subclass of a particular base class instead of 
> an implementation of an interface.
> 
> HTH,
> -Alex
> 
> On 4/29/19, 7:29 AM, "Carlos Rovira" <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>     @Mark, if you use Maven, then artifacts in the poms are all what you need,
>     so maven takes care of pulling all right dependencies you need.
>     
>     @Alex, about extending IUIBase, my own experience is that beads are a very
>     good way to extend/compose more code you need, but extending core
>     interfaces like the one you said is not the case. Let me put you an
>     example: For Jewel I use "StyledUIBase" that extends "UIBase" to add
>     IClassSelectorListSupport, the css CRUD API (addClass, removeClass, 
> etc..):
>     
>     public class StyledUIBase extends UIBase implements
>     IClassSelectorListSupport
>     
>     This makes that some components are easy to extend but others need to be
>     recreate. There are lots of cases in Jewel where I need to
>     
>     If you search in Jewel for implements IClassSelectorListSupport
>      you'll find Jewel Group, Jewel DataContainerBase and Jewel Table, are
>     implementing that class while, so they are not StyledUIBase in it's core
>     are standard UIBase and at its level we implement the interface and add
>     again all methods repeating the code. So we are duplicating that code all
>     that times.
>     
>     I think this is one of the few things I don't like in Jewel, If you know
>     some way to do this in a better way, I can change it
>     
>     thanks
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     El lun., 29 abr. 2019 a las 12:36, Kessler CTR Mark J
>     (<mark.kessler....@usmc.mil.invalid>) escribió:
>     
>     >      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
>     >
>     >
>     
>     -- 
>     Carlos Rovira
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