Today I submitted my first patch to the FlexSDK after becomming a contributor. Lets see how this all will work in the future. It feels like I am working for free and fixing bugs that Adobe should work on but in several cases it is so much easier to just do the stuff and fix it yourself in 5min instead of writing 2h emails. Although I am not so happy about it.
Getting the Flex SDK to work is pretty easy if you manage several hurdles. It is quite cool to debug the ActionScript compiler while compiling your project.
The next thing I want to fix is the Bindable meta tag. [Bindable] in ActionScript projects is a pain if you do not compile with the flex.swc library and there is no reason for the compiler to embed the overhead of creating event dispatchers all over the place.
We are here already using “our” new compiler. Again it will be quite interesting to see how all this works out with Adobe and how they will judge about feature submissions.
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Nice one Joa,
is there anything you’re not doing or involved with? :)
I am also looking forward into the near future and see what effect it will take, now that the SDKs and the Compilers are OpenSopurce and how Adobe is going to handle it?
But now, we all have the chance to put it in the “right” direction.
Keep the ideas flowing, dude!
One day even you, my friend, will learn the difference between quiet and quite.
There you go! Wasn’t that hard, was it?