On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Left Right <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > This is all conjecture, unless you have personally polled every single > Flex > > and AS3 developer in the world these statements shouldn't be used to try > > and justify decisions. Unless you can back them up with hard data it just > > makes it sound like you are trying really hard to convince someone of > > something that may or may not be true. > > > These aren't exactly assumptions. I didn't poll personally, but > FlashDevelop developers had organized a poll, which was active for more > then two years now on inclusion of Flex SDK with the FlashDevelop. You can > see the results here: > http://flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4560 > As you can see, about the half of the voters would rather not include the > SDK with their favorite editor. If you read the responses, you will see > that the major problem was the size of the download. > > I can actually post polls to few popular user boards / user groups - should > I, if that is really of an interest, I'll do! But being an active user of > many such boards, I can quite predict the results. There will be a lot of > users who don't need that stuff from SDK. A lot means at leas hundreds of > votes (as per forum traffic, that would be a very significant number). > > On the same note, if we are going to run few polls - do you have any wishes > about the wording of the question? > > Best. > > Oleg > And does anyone know what percentage of developers use FlashDevelop? I, for one, have never even seen their home page, let alone used or downloaded it. Nor do I believe that any polls on any such boards that you didn't mention really matter either. All of these boards will have only a percentage of Flex and AS3 users, a percentage that is impossible for anyone to determine. I imagine this is why the Apache saying exists: "If it didn't happen in the mailing list, it didn't happen.". -omar
