[osflash] Disseminating OSFlash (was IDE mon amour, the poll results.)

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> I just thought of this now, but maybe OSFlash needs a page like this
> <http://rubyonrails.org/down> linked from a big icon on the main OSFlash
> page.  What do you guys think? 
> 
> Regards,

That's exactly the approach of haXe.

For example haXe comes with "haxelib" since 1.06 release. haxelib is a
package manager similar to apt-get or rubygems. When you need to install
a library (for instance Screenweaver HX), all you need is to run the
command :

haxelib install swhx

This will automatically download and install the software. Creating an
haxelib package is very simple (see http://haxe.org/haxelib).

Once people are starting to use haxelib more widely (right now 5 libs
only) I'm planning to add a web frontend similar to Freshmeat.net that
will list the projects online and give news about latest updates.

While this kind of tool does not replace documentation & tutorials, it
greatly helps developers to release their libraries to the masses of
haXe developers :)

Nicolas