Comments | ext2366: Collaborative flash development

ext2366

Collaborative flash development

Aug 18, 2009 15:39

Does anyone write flash apps as part of a team? It seems that the "source" is a big binary mess of an FLA file. This means that you cannot merge changes made by different developers, basically limiting each file to only one developer at a time ( Read more... )

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evath August 18 2009, 21:26:34 UTC

As I said on IRC adobe have their own version system.

google pointed me to http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/versioncue/

ext2366 August 18 2009, 21:59:13 UTC

That doesn't do merging. It only does pessimistic lock based conflict resolution. i.e. If someone else wants to edit the same file, you have to check it back in. You can't have two people work on the same file at the same time and have their changes merged like you can with real languages.

I guess flash isn't designed for doing anything more than one person creating a pretty picture with no interaction.

evath August 18 2009, 23:05:39 UTC

No surprise, I was more putting it up there to point out why you probably won't get anywhere.

scat0324 August 19 2009, 08:55:12 UTC

http://www.libming.org/ ? (I only know this is what Potlatch is compiled with)

ext2366 August 19 2009, 09:12:08 UTC

I guess this suffers from most reverse engineered open source apps in being about 10 years behind.

It completely fails to parse the input file:

site.fla:1498:330: warning: null character(s) ignored
.... thousands more ...
No valid input files

It certainly seems like flash is for lone designers.