In theory, (and this was true back when Royale/FlexJS first got going), the
APIs were sufficiently identical. Maybe not truly identical, but enough that
you could have one application code base without COMPILE::SWF/JS conditionals
that could run in Flash or in a browser. In theory, all COMPILE::SWF/JS was
buried in the framework SWCs themselves to make the API surface effectively the
same.
And then, because Flash Builder projects could only specify one set of SWCs,
then FlexJS/Royale had "unified" or multi-platform SWCs. In any SWC, the SWF
code in library.swf did the Flash implementation and js/out did the browser
implementation. And if we ever had another target, it would also get packed in
(cpp/out)
I would like to think this is still almost completely true. The "write once,
run in Flash or Browser" still works. I've seen JS-only APIs added that don't
have Flash implementations, but for any API that was supposed to do what Flash
could do, hopefully the JS equivalent has a similar enough API surface that the
app using that SWC doesn't need conditional compilation.
Could the Maven SWF SWCs be made smaller without the js/out folder? Yeah,
probably. But you might need to keep js/out for the distribution that tries to
mimic a Flash Builder compatible SDK.
HTH,
-Alex
On 1/6/22, 2:06 PM, "Greg Dove" <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
We have swf-swcs and js-swcs. Maven puts them alongside eachother, ant puts
them in the two separate folders (swf in the original project folder, js
inside corresponding projectJS folder in the sibling file structure).
Question:
Why do the swf-swc builds have js out content inside them? I think that in
quite a few cases the 'swf' representation (which contains the definitions
loaded by the compiler) of the js in the js build is probably a little
different to the 'swf' representation inside the swf build because there
can be api differences between js and swf (via COMPILE::SWF and
COMPILE::JS differences etc). So I assume that it is not the general case
that we would have a unified swc. If so, why does the swf-only swc build
contain js files?
