Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript & Mozill

[JesterXL]

Java made Ant, Ruby made Rake, Tamarin made...???  I dig Ant and all,  
but it'd be neat to have an AS3 alternative.


On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Jim Cheng wrote:

Abdul Qabiz wrote:

> What does it mean to me as ActionScript developer? I can use my  
existing

> skills and write code in other environment which uses Tamarin.

Absolutely. I've been working with the Tamarin source code quite a bit
recently and have found that the AVM+ run-time can be readily "abused"
for doing file format conversions and other such automation from the
command-line, as it already supports file I/O and binary data. Adobe's
Tamarin developers actually have one AS3 script that reformats an opcode
table into a source and header file in C.

Just out of the box, this functionality is perfect for writing little
AS3 scripts for manipulating and reformatting data, be they plain ASCII
or binary much like what people more often use Unix shell scripting or
Perl scripts. If you ever needed to do global regular expression search
and replaces across a lot of files and didn't know enough Perl, young
ActionScript developer, now is your chance.

And just wait until Tamarin gets hooked in as the scripting engine for
other bits of fun. Maybe someone should nudge Blizzard to let us script
World of Warcraft using AS3. The boys here would certainly love it ;)

Jim

Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript & Mozill

[Jim Cheng]

Abdul Qabiz wrote:

> What does it mean to me as ActionScript developer? I can use my existing
> skills and write code in other environment which uses Tamarin.

Absolutely.  I've been working with the Tamarin source code quite a bit 
recently and have found that the AVM+ run-time can be readily "abused" 
for doing file format conversions and other such automation from the 
command-line, as it already supports file I/O and binary data.  Adobe's 
Tamarin developers actually have one AS3 script that reformats an opcode 
table into a source and header file in C.

Just out of the box, this functionality is perfect for writing little 
AS3 scripts for manipulating and reformatting data, be they plain ASCII 
or binary much like what people more often use Unix shell scripting or 
Perl scripts.  If you ever needed to do global regular expression search 
and replaces across a lot of files and didn't know enough Perl, young 
ActionScript developer, now is your chance.

And just wait until Tamarin gets hooked in as the scripting engine for 
other bits of fun.  Maybe someone should nudge Blizzard to let us script 
World of Warcraft using AS3.  The boys here would certainly love it  ;)

Jim

Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript & Mozill

[Abdul Qabiz]

A better VM... Now community can also contribute to Virtual Machine...so
things should be more standard, fast and good..

What does it mean to me as ActionScript developer? I can use my existing
skills and write code in other environment which uses
Tamarin
.

I liked the Manish Jethani's post on this:
http://mannu.livejournal.com/382940.html

-abdul

On 1/21/07, graysonpierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


  Hello,

I read somewhere that Adobe was donating the source for ActionScript
to the Mozilla Foundation. Would anyone care to comment on what this
will mean to Flex & Apollo in the future?

GP