Thanks for the clarification and for this donation Jude, I'm happy to see you
contribute and spend time on this useful tool.
Frédéric THOMAS
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:32:23 -0500
> Subject: Re: [POLL] Accept Radii8 Code Donation
> From: flexcapaci...@gmail.com
> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>
> On Monday, August 18, 2014, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > > Doesn't matter.
> > So I'd take that as it currently doesn't work or compile?
>
>
> I feel like I missed giving some of the details on this project.
>
> As Alex and I have been going through it I've tried to keep compileable as
> long as I could. When it came to the icons I reused mostly all Eclipse
> icons since that is open source. We decided after some discussion that we
> (the community) should or could recreate the icons later. To keep the
> project
> compilable I decided to blacken out the images rather than remove them and
> have the compiler complain. If someone so chooses they can look at the
> runtime demo at radii8.com/demo until we get replacements.
>
> Remarkably we haven't had to remove too many classes. But where we have
> removed functionality I will document those cases and we can rewrite or
> work on getting permission after donation. I will document those cases so
> we know where and what was removed or doesn't work. Alex is well aware of
> these cases and that's partially why we didn't want to liter the list with
> these details until later. We were planning to provide all this information
> at some point and it's astute of you to notice and get more info. We just
> need to get the donation secured first IMHO and then go back and work on
> these issues after.
>
> The idea among a few ideas was to create a Flex Explorer / Design view
> online so people can try Flex and see the generated code. At the same time
> it's also in my opinion to create a design time canvas / design view we can
> use for our projects where we dint have to create something from scratch.
> We tell our client we can create a furniture layout designer that customers
> can use and that it will take 6 months but really we will use this, add
> some furniture components and then drink margaritas on the beach for 5
> months. Somewhat joking but that's the plan.
>
> The other plan is to create awesome layouts that export Flex MXML but also
> HTML for mobile sites bc we all agree imho that we would rather do
> something else than code HTML layouts. I get the feeling no one on this dev
> list doesn't know how to do this but me personally.
>
> Once it's all committed we will work on getting it going, listing what
> works, what doesn't, what direction / needs / services people on the
> community want or need or would just like to see.
>
>
> > Do we have any idea on how much work may be required to get this into a
> > releasable state? While not required, a list of what needs to be
> > done/what''s missing would be useful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
