Alex
I fully understand and wish you all the best, but as a small developer i
need to look at what is best for my development, i will keep a eye on Royal
> On 23 Jun 2019, at 06:26, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> One of the reasons Flex and Royale are at Apache is so no corporation can
> pull the plug. Apache specifically does not allow corporations to have any
> say in their projects. If Adobe decides to stop paying me to work on Flex
> and/or Royale, if I can find some other way to get paid to do it, I can.
>
> As long as there are 3 PMC members who can get it together to approve
> releases, the projects can live on at the ASF. The community only has to be
> large enough to keep 3 PMC members motivated to participate on the mailing
> lists and process releases.
>
> -Alex
>
> On 6/22/19, 1:35 PM, "Scott" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So I am an old program 60 so I would say I have seen it all many time
> over, we have tried/looked at royal a number of times
>
> As for royal, sorry it is late, we needed royal to be in full production 2
> years ago, when we tried royal we kept finding new issues or missing
> elements, yes I know this is community code and I wish the project all the
> success
>
> Now for the real issue, community unless there is a big user community
> then the key developed will do something else, just look at what happened to
> flex when adobe pull the plug, this could happened again and who is to say it
> will not, then royal will be a dead end
>
> Sorry that’s just my view, over 40 years of development I have seen this
> happen many time
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 22 Jun 2019, at 16:48, Piotr Zarzycki <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> I'm curious why are thinking that Royale is a dead end?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Piotr
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:42 PM Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> AIR is a good option but you have the update install problems, the
>>> solutions are out there and air will do auto update etc ...
>>>
>>> Google web frame work well, you install a browser, that looks a desk top
>>> app but run the flex app like today, I have tried this and it work well the
>>> WebKit stuff is not difficult
>>>
>>> With the new commercial owners of air etc you should be able to come to a
>>> deal on the desk top install of flash, I have talked to Andrew about this
>>> approach
>>>
>>> In our case we had the skills and due to timing we went for a UX port to
>>> HTML5 but keeps all the as3 code, we converted to TrueType in less that 1
>>> day
>>>
>>> Royal is an option but to hard and IMHO a dead end, in a few years your be
>>> porting again
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On 22 Jun 2019, at 16:25, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I have a large Flex(3.5)/Flash app that (obviously) runs under a browser.
>>>> Since the Flash player is going away, I am wondering if I should consider
>>>> AIR. What are my other options? What's easiest?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Blake McBride
>>>
>>>
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