Flex 3 and Flex 4 support
February 18th, 2010
We’re ramping up development on Potomac after a bit of a lull. Probably like most of you, we’re excited by the new stuff coming in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. We’ve talked to alot of you guys using Potomac and it seems most everyone is using Flex 4 currently or plans to shortly after its released. So we’re considering droping support for Potomac on Flex 3. This would mean that you’d need to use Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 to develop with Potomac.
If you’re using Flex 3 and don’t plan on upgrading to Flex 4 anytime soon, and don’t want us to drop support – speak now. Leave a comment on this post and let us know. If we don’t hear from anyone, then we’ll proceed with a Flex 4 only Potomac.
From where I stand, you can go ahead with Flex 4 only. Your Potomac project is something I’ve been dreaming about for years, and I almost have an orgasm just thinking about all the marvelous things that will be possible by combining the power of Flex 4, Potomac, SourceMate, FlashBuilder 4 and Spring DM. That’s just awesome!
What about all existing projects? I would not make a deliberate effort to drop the support but let it die in a year or so…
@Sebastien – Thanks. We’re hoping that we might be able to do some serverside integration with Java OSGi in the future too
@VM – Are you using Potomac on a Flex 3? If you are we’ll consider keeping Flex 3 support. The reason why we’re even considering dropping it is because the Flex 3 and Flex 4 support require separate code branches. Therefore we’re going to need to keep them in sync (which is time consuming). Making changes in both branches, testing both branches, build and packaging both branches, not to mention documenting the differences between them.
Chris,
I’m not sure Ilog will be upgrading to flex 4.0, and there really aren’t any comparable components out there. What about dropping updates to Flex 3 potomac now or as soon as you have what you feel is a stable build and not do any further development on it. Kind of like Flex builder itself. If you want all the newer goodies, you have to switch to 4.0 or 1.1 for potomac? Seems like the potomac as it stands would be close to what you would need for Flex 3.0 and further enhancements could be just for 4.0.
Hi Mark,
Yes, no matter what we won’t completely remove the Flex3 downloads and such. Just stop upgrading/enhancing them. I do suspect that the iLog guys will be making a Flex4 supported version when Flex4 is released (I’m sure of it). Even if they didn’t, I think you will still be able to use the Flex3 version unchanged in a Flex4 app. Even in Flex4, you still use some of the standard Flex3 containers.
regards,
-Chris