> > I recently took a job working on a very large project that uses the Flash 8 > IDE for building. The project is structured hierarchically, with each FLA > associated with one view class. > > Very soon after starting, I was very frustrated by build times (40 > minutes+), so I convinced the boss to let me write a build tool that > determines dependencies, then factors out common code. Build time is vastly > improved, as views that are deeper in the hierarchy typically compile > against intrinsics rather than full classes (as determined by the tool). SWF > sizes are also much smaller, without having to mess around with exclude.xml. > I wrote in SWF invalidation, so that individual FLAs are only recompiled if > the modified time stamp on the FLA, or any of the FLA's dependent > ActionScript files, is greater than the SWF's (just like make). > > The tool can be run via the command-line or an Apache Ant task. > > Is anyone out there writing applications structured this way? Would they > have interest in the tool (written in Java)?
I wonder if it would not have been faster to port the application to Flash9 (compiled with mxmlc) considering the 90% of FP9 and the incremental compilation of mxmlc :) and I also wonder who would keep compiling for Flash8 nowadays ? cheers, zwetan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
