ASC2 Compatibility

[darscan]

Explore ASC2 problems.

[darscan]

The first release of RL2 will not bend to work around ASC2 bugs. We can address that in a patch release as it won't affect the API at all.

[darscan]

@creynders Do you use Flash Builder?

[creynders]

Yeps, I do. Is there a list of these issues? Ah I seem to remember there were troubles with the mushroom-assignments? If those have to go, I'll be a very sad Mario.

[darscan]

These guys ( @psykosoft ) seem to be patching their repo to work with ASC2:

https://github.com/psykosoft/robotlegs-framework/commits/master

Unfortunately, bad line-endings obscure many of their commits, so it's often hard to spot the fixes. I'm going to try checking out their repo and doing a diff locally.

[darscan]

Arg. I wish it was just the ||= thing, but it seems that some ridiculous changes are required.. like casting a class that implements an interface as that very interface. For example:

https://github.com/psykosoft/robotlegs-framework/commit/ebab23fed7ef59e90b8cd0e65116a5bd5327031d

[creynders]

F*#%, that's horrible. We'll need to maintain a separate fork if there's a
lot more of those.

[creynders]

A lot more of those kinds of bugs I meant to say. This stuff comes close to crippling the code.

[darscan]

Yeh

[darscan]

I installed FB4.7 and started porting all the code... and I decided, "no". It's completely ridiculous to have to cast concrete classes back to the interfaces they implement. It looks and feels awful. And it's only a problem if you want to compile against the source. Linking against the SWC works fine.