Comments on: Simultaneous Fork https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nick Griffiths https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html/comment-page-1#comment-3317 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:09:48 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=965#comment-3317 We are going through this at the moment, and have developed a wee tool for as2 to as3 conversion to make it easier. We are going to stick it up on osflash once we are happy with it. You can track its progress on our blog

]]> By: darianr https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html/comment-page-1#comment-3316 Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:20:22 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=965#comment-3316 There is no silver bullet. We are doing precisely this with Subversion, we forked an .asp to .aspx and now we are stuck having to support both for the next couple of months. They need to be identical in terms of methods, properties and output. UML has kept it sane. We’ve tagged .ASP as the lead even though it will be abandoned in a few months. Whatever we can do in ASP can be done in ASPX, but not the other way around — lowest common denominator dictates we have to do the driving from ASP for now.

]]> By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html/comment-page-1#comment-3315 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:50:18 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=965#comment-3315 I don’t have a choice; I need to showcase AS2 and AS3 versions of a project together, so the code-bases for the most part have to match exactly. Thus, taking a frozen (working) build of AS2 and converting to AS3 isn’t bad at all.

What sucks is keeping track of changes from that point forward and keeping the builds in sync.

]]> By: mike https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html/comment-page-1#comment-3314 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:26:02 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=965#comment-3314 reworking the old code always seems to take more time.. from Flash 5 to Flash 7, from AS1 to AS2, AS2 to AS3, etc.. it seems like it’s faster to just start over with a clean slate then trying to kludge the old code into the new structure/syntax. .. we typically just freeze the old code base and it only gets bug fixes from that point forward.. use all that we’ve learned from the previous version to create the new codebase. and I try to make a clean break and work only in the new syntax. Going back and forth between AS1 and AS2 for example makes it too easy to make mistakes. my 2cents..

]]> By: Nick https://jessewarden.com/2006/02/simultaneous-fork.html/comment-page-1#comment-3313 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:01:52 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=965#comment-3313 No, but I will be very shortly. I’ll be interested to hear how you do it. I think a freeze on our as2 code is going to be unlikely, so it’s going to get interesting.

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