Yishay is using Flash Builder. I’m personally happy that he is. Choices is a good thing.
FWIW, the discussion here is about Eclipse and compiling Royale-compiler — not FB. > On Dec 25, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Carlos Rovira <[email protected]> wrote: > > mmm... is hard to me think that someone is still using FB for Royale. It's > a pretty old software and with no support this days. > Maybe we should open a thread and ask who is using FB. I think the response > should be near 0 or equal to 0. > > El mar., 25 dic. 2018 a las 10:10, Harbs (<[email protected]>) escribió: > >> No. I’m saying a newer version should be fine. >> >> I was just suggesting that if someone is using an older version, they can >> probably get it to work. >> >>> On Dec 25, 2018, at 10:04 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Are you saying we should use something older? >>> >>> Currently, we say Helios is the version to use, primarily because that's >> what was used by the Adobe team at the time the code base was donated to >> Apache, and partially out of concern of being able to generate the Flash >> Builder plugin that required Java 6. I could not find information >> indicating that Helios could be patched to support Java 8. >>> >>> If we pick an older version, at least one of us needs to use that oldest >> version. So far, the latest Eclipse is working where Helios did not. >>> >>> -Alex >>> >>> On 12/24/18, 11:54 PM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I’m using 4.7.2 with no apparent problems. >>> >>> I’m pretty sure that anything 4.4 or later should work. That’s 4.5 >> years old. I can’t imagine why someone would want to stick with such an old >> version of Eclipse, but it looks like it’s possible to add support for Java >> 8 in even older versions.[1] >>> >>> Harbs >>> >>> [1] >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEclipse_(software)%23Releases&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C9b0ecabb23aa49e8fc6108d66a3e24d2%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636813212469048607&sdata=uIY%2FjY7d7mU%2Fi5ZdoYXPpzau4MYC78HQTy%2BFVuiQ8vY%3D&reserved=0 >> < >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEclipse_(software)%23Releases&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C9b0ecabb23aa49e8fc6108d66a3e24d2%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636813212469048607&sdata=uIY%2FjY7d7mU%2Fi5ZdoYXPpzau4MYC78HQTy%2BFVuiQ8vY%3D&reserved=0 >>> >>> >>>> On Dec 25, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> Looks like requiring Java 8 might result in a requirement to upgrade >> Eclipse. I'm going to try the latest Eclipse. Speak up if you can think >> of a reason we should use an older one. >>>> >>>> -Alex >>>> >>>> On 12/24/18, 12:01 AM, "Yishay Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I’m fine with it too. I’ve been using FB with 1.8 for a while. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> In my opinion, we’re not in the business of forcing anyone to do >> anything. Options are a good thing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Piotr Zarzycki <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2018 9:20:58 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: Royale Java versions >>>> >>>> +1. We have new IDE Moonshine and VSCode. Maybe it's force people who >> using >>>> still FB to finally drop that IDE to some modern one. >>>> >>>> Thanks, Piotr >>>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 8:15 AM Alex Harui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Royale is currently using Google Closure Compiler from June 2017. >> There >>>>> is a bug in that version and even the latest Closure Compiler that is >>>>> blocking release-mode module loading. Google appears to be willing to >> fix >>>>> the bug, so that got me started on upgrading the Closure Compiler we >> bundle >>>>> to the latest release so we can quickly test out any fix for the module >>>>> issue. Historically, when we upgrade Closure Compiler, there are >> changes >>>>> we need to make in our code to get Royale to work again, and it is >>>>> definitely true this time. However, it appears that Closure Compiler >> is >>>>> now dependent on a version of Guava that requires Java 8. We currently >>>>> allow Java 7 for Royale. Any objections to dropping Java 7? There are >>>>> hacks to upgrade Flash Builder to run on Java 8, so that shouldn't be >> an >>>>> issue. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> -Alex >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Carlos Rovira > http://about.me/carlosrovira
