Comments on: Flex Compiler API http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/16/flex-compiler-api/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Theo http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/16/flex-compiler-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5019 Theo Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:47:39 +0000 http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/16/flex-compiler-api/#comment-5019 <p>Yes, I have. I don't use it for two reasons: my macrodefs (which I wrote before I heard of Antennae) do more or less everything that Antennae does, and Antennae seems to me (and I may be wrong here, it was some time since I looked at the project) to be an all-or-nothing deal: use Antennaes build files and it will work nicely, but you have to adhere to their idea of how to do things, or at least you need it all to be able to run their mxmlc, because it depends on a the rest. As I said, I might be wrong on that last point, and I assume a lot of people find it useful.</p> <p>My problem hasn't been that I couldn't use Ant to build my Flex applications, but that writing tasks using macrodefs is quite tricky, to do more advanced things a real programming language helps a lot. So far I haven't felt that the effort was worth it, because in the end I still would have to build a command string to pass off to exec, a hackish solution at best. Now I it seems I can do it much cleaner and simpler, and at the same time be able to do some more advanced things.</p> Yes, I have. I don’t use it for two reasons: my macrodefs (which I wrote before I heard of Antennae) do more or less everything that Antennae does, and Antennae seems to me (and I may be wrong here, it was some time since I looked at the project) to be an all-or-nothing deal: use Antennaes build files and it will work nicely, but you have to adhere to their idea of how to do things, or at least you need it all to be able to run their mxmlc, because it depends on a the rest. As I said, I might be wrong on that last point, and I assume a lot of people find it useful.

My problem hasn’t been that I couldn’t use Ant to build my Flex applications, but that writing tasks using macrodefs is quite tricky, to do more advanced things a real programming language helps a lot. So far I haven’t felt that the effort was worth it, because in the end I still would have to build a command string to pass off to exec, a hackish solution at best. Now I it seems I can do it much cleaner and simpler, and at the same time be able to do some more advanced things.

]]> By: Erki Esken http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/16/flex-compiler-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5017 Erki Esken Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:22 +0000 http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/16/flex-compiler-api/#comment-5017 <p>Have you tried <a href="http://code.google.com/p/antennae/" rel="nofollow">Antennae</a> Ant scripts for Flex compiler?</p> Have you tried Antennae Ant scripts for Flex compiler?

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