Speaking for my organization, we have a team with both platforms as well as a number who run Mac's in a virtualized environment with Flex on both the Mac and PC sides. Speaking for us, I can say the biggest single issue we have is the fact that project files get checked in. Although the project files work equally on both platforms, what really gums up the works is going thru Flex upgrade, for example SDK 3.0 to SDK 3.1, can be a big headache.
Don't get me wrong, checking in project files can provide a significant productivity gain as getting developers up to speed in a common development environment is a big help. When the SDK string, in the .actionScriptProperties gets parsed to point to either an SDK that isn't there anymore or its identity has changed, you will get to the point where the project properties can no longer be viewed or modified. We has seen this cause workspace and compiler errors as well. The only reasonable workaround to this condition is to create new empty projects, move those new project files aside, checkout your project and then restore those newly created project files and then go through the process of manually setting up your projects. So you ask yourself, why not just check-in updated project files? Certainly a solution however there are a number of reasons why I choose to avoid that. The project files carry with them asset and class bindings that may or may not be appropriate for each developer to automatically inherit. KFB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralf Bokelberg Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I wonder if people see problems with teams of Mac & Windows machines? We sometimes see some problems, and i wonder if the problem comes from a Mac user, who joined our Team lately. We share some of our Workspace settings via SubVersion. We don't use absolute pathes in our settings though. Cheers Ralf. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Cole Joplin <[email protected] <mailto:cole_joplin%40yahoo.com> > wrote: > What is better or worse is a matter of opinion, I think. I have used FB on > Windows and Mac, and it really doesn't matter. I've switched to the Mac, as > a developer, fulltime, and I'm having no problems, it's solid. It seems to > me that the biggest problems people have are more about which version of the > library/player/AIR they are using than FB. > > I say choose the OS you like, and get Flex, FB or not. You're not getting > dinged here. Personally, I'd choose the Mac in a heartbeat. > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Hayes <[email protected] <mailto:jim%40primalpictures.com> > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:04:20 AM > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? > > General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder > "slightly worse" on mac than it is in windows? > > I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, > sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), > > but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to > know. > > Many thanks! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of Josh McDonald > Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? > > > > Kevlar suit... *check*! > > It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, > many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for > thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. > Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is > better on Mac :) > > -Josh > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru <kbmulvihill@ gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just > wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? > > Thanks in advance, > Kevin > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. > do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 > Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. > comYahoo! 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