Thank you, Alex, I'll contact them directly then. I saw that it also said "Adobe has taken over day-to-day management of the project" so i thought that maybe you or someone else here might have an inside scoop on the future of the lib.
Thanks again for your time. > From: aha...@adobe.com > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:15:54 -0800 > Subject: Re: facebook api > > That page says that Grant Skinner and friends are working on it. Grant is > not an Adobe employee and last I heard, is alive and well, so this library > appears to be outside the influence of Adobe (although I suppose that Adobe > could be providing monetary incentives to Grant or others to work on it). > > > On 1/25/13 5:56 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Since that seems like it's targetting games, I'd imagine that Adobe is > > serious > > about maintaining it. It does not seem tied to Flex specifically. It's a > > Flash > > library. > > > > Harbs > > On Jan 25, 2013, at 2:57 PM, David Coleman wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Our company makes facebook games. We are considering releasing an AIR > >> version of one of our games. We have considered using this library [1]. > >> The > >> writeup says that it is "fully supported by Facebook and Adobe". This begs > >> me to ask the logical question... Is it (or could it be) supported by > >> Apache > >> Flex? Social gaming is a very visible arena, and I would love to be one of > >> the first to be able to announce that we have a multimillion user Facebook > >> game fully based on Apache Flex. I have already started testing to see if > >> there are any benefits to upgrade our codebase to 4.9.0, and I'm curious > >> what > >> the community's opinion would be on our ability to use this library in a > >> possible AIR app, in conjunction with 4.9.0. > >> > >> Is this library going to stay with Adobe and cease progress at 4.6, or, > >> will > >> it continue to be supported by the Apache Flex community? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dave > >> > >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/ > >> > >> > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
