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Current Plan

Not really a Roadmap but a little idea of what's going on.

• The C/C++ sources code are not regularly updated because
  it was time to Eat our own dog food
• As described in the main page status
  I'm building things with it, eg. I work on a subject, make a prototype,
  reflect on it then iterate and implement stuff, rinse and repeat
• The main focus has been put on server-side development
  basically running as CGI under Apache
  and building AS3 libraries for that purpose
• Another focus is on command-line tools
  and server-side administration/maintenance
• Last focus is on building and documenting better
  for a long time I was using Virtual Machines
  now I'm moving to real hardware machines

TODO:

• republish redtamarin.com etc.
  with AS3 sources
• document hardware setup
  • document Windows setup
  • document Mac OS X setup
  • document Linux Ubuntu setup
• build as3lang.org community web site
  • focus on security
  • authentification / login -> SSL/TLS
  • user sessions server-side
  • news, blog, forum? etc.
  • let people publish their project, their news, etc.
• build as3distro as a cli tool and REST API
• improve the SDK
  the file/directory structure need to change
  it will be similar to other lang distribution
  and follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
  under Windows: hard dependency on Cygwin ?
• how to build and distribute an executable
• how to build daemon/service
  • need to be able to capture signals
  • need to test with upstart etc. under Linux
  • need to test with launchd under mac OS X
  • need to test services API under Windows
• how to build socket server
  • strangely a socket loop is very similar to an event loop
  • need to be able to transfer AMF messages (eg. support types)

Documentation

Please visit the Documentation page
where I try to structure something that make sense.

If you struggle on something or have questions,
avoid to send a direct email and create an issue instead.

Contribute

I have personally gave up on looking for contributors,
not that I don't want or need the help, but the project
is seen as "obscure" at best or "too complicated to work with" at worst.

The last talk I had were in those categories

• game companies using ActionScript 3.0
  that want to evaluate the tool
• security / infosec developers or companies
  that basically want to grab some knowledge about AVM2 etc.
• some developers
  who want to use a flash player server side and are "disappointed"
• some other developers
  who realise that compiling cross-platform C++ is much harder
  than compiling AS3 from Flash Builder

In every cases I end up spending way too much time answering emails.
I'm not gonna go into details here it would turn into a big rant.

Only thing I can say is I'm working on this because it is useful to me.