Air on Linux

[jasongardner]

All,

An area I am most interested in contributing to (and likely not an
area to receive much focus) is getting Air back on Linux. I was
curious if anyone had any insight as to whether the "porting kit",
that Adobe was making available to partners, would now be accessible
to Open Spoon / ASF. Any idea?

[gspiridonov]

it'd denfinitely be nice to keep the cross-compatability as complete
as possible... but i've no idea if anything is happening about that

[Nicholas Kwiatkowski]

Adobe has publically stated that they will only be open-sourcing the SDK and the compiler.  The Flash Player, AIR runtime and tooling (Flash Builder / Flash Pro) are not being open-sourced and will remain property of Adobe for the time being.

 

I doubt that the porting kit would be available to ASF, but that may be side project that OSF may pick up one day.  Speaking personally, I don't think it is on our priority list for the time being -- we have some other fish to fry -- very large fish like the SDK.

 

-Nick Kwiatkowski

 Open Spoon Foundation

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[Jason Gardner]

Ya, I didn't think it would be a high priority for the group as a
whole, but for me and my company it is very important. Like I
mentioned, I would be very interested to work on that particular
portion, if that ended up being a possibility. I'm not overly excited
about the alternatives to Air, and I've trying to ride Air 2.6 for as
long as I can.

I wonder what the status of that Fosdr project is. That was a pretty
impressive demo.

[Jonathan Campos]

It never hurts to ask though. No promises but we'll add it to the
list.

Jonathan Campos

[Alexandre Madurell]

IMHO, keeping AIR for linux in line with their Windows and Mac
counterparts would help reduce the effect that their "no more mobile
browser plugin" statement has caused in public media (I mean, OK,
flash content no longer runs -strictly- everywhere, but to what
extent?).

It's like on one hand they're saying "ooops, it's our fault that you
got it wrong, here's the correct statement: Flash Player continues to
exist in mobile through AIR" and then "oh, but we don't have AIR 3.0
for linux", so... we're back at "Adobe doesn't offer any solution that
actually runs the same basecode -strictly- everywhere, not even
through AIR".

I understand that "maintaining AIR for linux will benefit Adobe" is an
arguable affirmation, but given the situation at hand I'd say it's
either that or making the AIR Runtime open source too.

Since most "open-source-mindset" developers run on linux, it would
also help the Open Spoon project establish a "real" sense of community
(not that I consider it to be otherwise, but linux users won't see it
that way if they can't run the content they produce).

Anyways, just my two cents...

[Ariel Jakobovits]

> No promises but we'll add it to the list.

I don't understand. If the project is open source, what does he need from you to be able to work on it?

[Michael Labriola]

The runtimes are not open source. Flex is. So flash player and air source is owned by adobe and not the foundation

[Mark Line]

Because air is a run time any that isn't currently planned to be opened sourced. Adobe currently is planning on donating the flex sdk and not any of the run times (flash, air). Adobe will continue to maintain and continue development on those.
hope this helps to explain

Mark