And that's a +1 indeed
Frédéric THOMAS
> From: webdoubl...@hotmail.com
> To: dev@flex.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [POLL] Accept Radii8 Code Donation
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:19:56 +0100
>
> 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
>
