[osflash] MTASC Future

[Ralf Bokelberg]

I'm confident, that a new plattform and the possibility to implement 
different frontends (-> programming languages) will strengthen the 
community and flash.

Cheers,
Ralf

> I really think this is a good discussion, so I'd like to keep it going 
> if that's ok. :)
 >
> "There is no need for an alternative tool, which basically imitates what
>   already exists."
> 
> Well, to me, one of the great things about the open source version was 
> that people could do things like your MTASC hacks, where you were able 
> to customize the compiler. I know that you will probably continue with 
> wherever Nicolas is going with MTASC, but forking away from Macromedia 
> is definitely going to lose a lot of people.
> 
> I also liked the debug messages from MTASC much better than the ones 
> from MMC.
> 
> Another great thing about open source in general is that often there are 
> some really dedicated people (e.g. Nicolas) who are constantly making 
> updates and improvements AND releasing them as soon as possible. 
> Contrast that with a big company that, in general, prioritizes features 
> that will earn them more money, and rolls them up into a release a year 
> away, which they charge $300 for an upgrade.
> 
> I am doing Flash for commercial work, but we just started our company a 
> few months ago with almost no money. Software is by far the biggest 
> expense for us (probably 80% or more), and MTASC was really a saving grace.
> 
> -austin
> 
> Austin Haas
> Pet Tomato, Inc.
> http://www.pettomato.com
> 
> Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
> 
>>Partly i understand your worries.
>>But if you really need to write ActionScript, because you are doing it 
>>commercially, you can easily buy a license of Flexbuilder and do so. 
>>There is no need for an alternative tool, which basically imitates what 
>>already exists. Or maybe somebody else implements OS AS3 - MTASC makes 
>>up a good foundation to learn from.
>>
>>Apart from that - open source is driven by personal interests. If 
>>Nicolas is interested in implementing a whole new plattform, no argument 
>>will change his mind.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Ralf.
>>
>>Allen, Christopher S. wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Ralf,
>>>
>>>I don't want to come off sounding like I think the whole thing that Nicholas is
>>>going to do is crap, or that it's not innovative, quite the opposite really.  I
>>>just think that this decision will have an impact on projects like yours,
>>>ActionStep, ASwing, etc..., and that we as Flash developers will soon have less
>>>choices for coding ActionScript.
>>>
>>>-Chris
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf
>>>Of Ralf Bokelberg
>>>Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:22 PM
>>>To: claus at codeazur.com; Open Source Flash Mailing List
>>>Subject: Re: [osflash] MTASC Future
>>>
>>>Couldn't you implement DENG on the nextgen MTASC and provide swfs for 
>>>interested users? As far as i understood Nicolas, different swf will be 
>>>able to communicate.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Ralf
>>>
>>>Claus Wahlers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>As announced at OFLA today MTASC will unlikely support ActionScript3.
>>>>>The reason is quite simple. MTASC supporting AS3 + AVM2 will be very
>>>>>comparable to Macromedia Compiler provided with FlexBuilder2. And only
>>>>>having the "opensource" difference is not enough.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>as much as i like innovation, this very most likely means the sudden
>>>>death of DENG.
>>>>cheers,
>>>>claus.
>>>>
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