Hi David, in fact i also never understood the point of open source, until i was able to tweak my favored actionscript compiler, MTASC that is.
The source of the compiler is a powerful addition to my toolset. It allows me to introduce all kinds of additonal checks or code transformations. For example, at some point i needed to create intrinsic actionscript classes. No problem with MTASC. Simply add a option to the compiler, which alows me to specify a target directory and a new codegeneration plugin and you are done. If i had to this from scratch, it would have taken much longer. I can't forsee all kinds of things people do with the compiler source, but i think, some of them could be valuable additions to the plattform. Cheers, Ralf. David Mendels wrote: > Hi, > > I can say that the source code for the framework will be published. (Not > necessarily under an open source license, but published so that folks > can see it and understand it and extend it.) > > As for the compiler, we don't have anything to announce at this time and > I am not sure if we want to do this, but I'd be interested in practical > suggestions from this list. Why should we do this? How would you use it? > How important is it--not just to be open source for the sake of it, but > actually for getting your work--whatever that is--accomplished? There > are many licenses and approaches folks take, which ones do you think > would make sense here? > > > -David > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Cannasse >>Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:27 AM >>To: Open Source Flash Mailing List >>Subject: Re: [osflash] Free compiler (was FW: [Fwd: Re: MTASC Future]) >> >>David Mendels wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>A few months ago, Claus wrote on this list: "unless macromedia >>>releases their compiler for free (unlikely)" >> >>Hi David, >> >>I would prefer "free as in freedom" than "free as is beer", >>but that's already something good ;) If you don't seel it >>anymore, it there any point in keeping the compiler sources >>closed ? People might like to study, improve, and customize >>it for specific needs. Of course this would reveal the >>bytecode format of the 8.5 Player, but some people are >>already working on that issue. >> >>Best, >>Nicolas >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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
