Boris, Your posting raises some interesting questions.
It seems to me that ASDT must compete with FDT and ultimately Zorn. In order to do that, the primary issue is developing an actionscript parser that explores whole files and generates errors for an entire file at a time (instead of one at a time)... quickly. This is necessary so that the editor can show where all the errors are during the edit cycle as does java eclipse, FDT, and presumably Zorn. I have not looked at the MTASC source becuase I initially failed at getting OCAML setup (and I got lazy). But Nicolas has said that it would be very hard to get MTASC to do this, as opposed to generating only one error at a time. Nevertheless, it seems to me that this is a critical missing piece in the Actionscript open source universe. Such a codebase would be an anchor to any open source editor. The thing is, this should be much easier than acutually doing a full MTASC since no code generation is necessary, only parsing. Is ther a formal syntax BNF/LALR for a parser generator to generate actionscript? It seems to me that someone (Nicolas perhaps) must have done this work already? I was thinking, maybe since we are working in eclipse, which is a java environment, it might be possible to take Jack (the java version of Yacc) and create a grammar for actionscript, so that anyone could create an actionscript compiler. There is no reason that we shouldnt have full computer sciencey language tools around Action/ECMA script. I have been thinking about this for a few weeks and I would love to get a language tools discussion going regarding solid open source Actionscript language building components so that we can make a full suite of Actionscript language development tools in the way that such things exist for other languages. Regards Hank On 9/23/05, Boris BEAULANT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know FDT is a good product, I know FDT represent a lot of work, But I > know that FDT isn't Open Source ! > And in this case it couldn't be an awesome gesture but a commercial > gesture ... ;( > > I know ASDT isn't enough strong and complete face to FDT, but we work on > it. I'm sorry for this Nico, I know all what you did for ASDT and that's > why all this hurt me ! > > Else ASDT work only on motivation of its team ... *if all OS flash > developpers doesn't support an OS tool who will do it ?* > > If I'm wrong, please explain me ! > > Bo (an angry guy behind his computer) > http://asdt.org > > > > Thomas Wester wrote: > > > Thanks Nico. This is an awesome gesture. > > > > -Thomas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Nico Zimmermann > > *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:54 AM > > *To:* Open Source Flash Mailing List > > *Subject:* AW: [osflash] FDT license > > > > Hey All! > > > > I am at low batterie status so I make it short. > > All known OSFlashers should have received their keys now. > > If there is any trouble or someone forgotten please mail > > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > Conference was great. I was wondering how many people did not > > know MTASC, SWFMill or even Eclipse... Maybe this > > changed now(I think so). > > > > Looking forward to the conference in Amsterdam:) > > > > Sorry for the delay... hope you did not get in any trouble... > > > > Cheers, Nico > > > > Powerflasher GmbH | Tel: +49(0)241 91880-230 > >> Drehturm < | Fax: +49(0)241 91880-239 > > Belvedereallee5 | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > D-52070 Aachen | http://www.powerflasher.de > > <http://www.powerflasher.de/> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Von:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] im Auftrag von Edwin van Rijkom > > *Gesendet:* Di 20.09.2005 22:21 > > *An:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Open Source Flash Mailing List > > *Betreff:* Re: [osflash] FDT license > > > > That sounds good. Thanks a lot Lars! > > > > Cheers, > > Edwin > > > > Lars Heinrich wrote: > > > > > Ok.. I called Nico, he told me that he will contact you latest on > > > monday. Because he´s on the roadshow he can´t do anything now. > > > But after he´s back he will take a look on your request. > > > > > > Sorry it tooked us so long, there is no excuse for that... We are > > > working on the problem ;-). > > > > > > > > > On 9/20/05, *Lars Heinrich* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > Like Stefan told, Nico and Carlo are both on a roadshow across > > > germany. I will see what we can do for Edwin. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >osflash mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >osflash mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
