one of only a few not depressing mails regarding this subject here ... I wished, I could forget some of the other news and opinions here.
Now I only wonder how Claus will handle this :-) regards _____ Arne ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mendels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Open Source Flash Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:12 AM Subject: [osflash] Deng future (was RE: MTASC Future) > Hi Claus, > > > > > i also can't rely on the MMC alone, because my contributors > > (who are not "flashers") are never going to buy it. i need an > > open source compiler. i can't tell my contributors to buy a > > compiler to compile code they gracefully contribute, and DENG > > contributors are hard enough to find. > > For my own clarity, is your concern that the Macromedia standalone > compiler is not open source, not free ("less than $1000"), or both? > > Also, "or unless macromedia releases their compiler for free (unlikely)" > I won't say this is or is not likely, but I would guess that much of > what we have released lately (a public alpha, a cmd line compiler, an > eclipse based tool, the Flex framework with that tool, etc) would have > been considered "unlikely" by many even a few weeks ago, and yet here > they are. Your guess is pretty reasonable here, but we like surprising > ourselves too :) > > "i can't tell my contributors to buy a compiler to compile code they > gracefully contribute, and DENG contributors are hard enough to find." > So how many copies of the compiler would you need? I'd hate to hink the > fate of Deng hung on just a couple of copies of a compiler. > > Regards, > David > Macromedia > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
