Frankly, I think half of the OSFlash community used MTASC because it was fast, while the others were all about it being free.
If you make it faster than mxmlc.exe, I'm interested, otherwise, nope. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES? i'll combine my answer to jesse with a response to this as well, because they cover some of the same ground..hope you dont mind. why choose open source vs flexbuilder 2 ? because A: its open source, if it doesnt do what i want, there is always the possibility to change that B: it would most likely be free. Now, im not averse to paying for tools which i use and would consider buying FlexBuilder2 if my work required it, but its not just about me. of course, its too early to say if MM will make the command line version of the compiler available for free. If they do, then thats great, that alleviates some of the need for an open source / free version, and it would allow me to concentrate more on working with the ASDT team to make a better development environment. If their compiler is not free, then we'll see what direction the osflash community moves, if its towards an ocaml based compiler, then i'll learn ocaml, if its towards an antlr / flex / bison based approach then i'll help with that (and there has already been work on an as3 antlr grammar, so the pieces are starting to take shape) whatever happens im determined that a free compiler should be available, because it would keep the momentum around osflash going. If the only option is to buy FlexBuilder2 then I think the (OS) flash community would start to lose out on potential development talent that would be attracted. In my opinion the scope and quantity of tools that will be created to support flash development would be severely hindered by the lack of a decent free compiler. just to be clear, its not about one versus the other, its about the whole flash development ecosystem. Having commercial tools with commercial support is very important within certain sectors of industry, and similarly having free versions is important to other sectors of industry. with both we have choice, with just one, we dont. i like choice. thanks, Martin. Nick Weekes wrote: > I don't understand why you would go for a (possibly) less functional tool > than FlexBuilder 2 just because its open source? _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
