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Flash, Flex & AIR Package Names

flash = Flash Player & AIR
fl = Flash
mx = Flex & AIR
air = AIR

Make any sense? Explicit for new users? Does anyone know why the legacy mx is still around?

A while back I suggested the following, and it was brought up in conversation again the other day…

player = Flash Player
flash = Flash
flex = Flex
air = AIR

To be honest I thought the feature request would get quashed straight away, but it’s still there and open. Want to see package names cleaned up for future releases? It’s up to us!

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11 Responses to “Flash, Flex & AIR Package Names”

  1. joshspoon says:
    April 29, 2008 at 12:19 am

    That would make everything easier

  2. Andrew D. Goodfellow says:
    April 29, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    Great idea Tink. I’ll go comment in the bug base to reinforce it.

  3. Chad says:
    May 1, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    There definitely needs to be something done, because as it is right now, it’s soup. Great idea on your break down of the names, though.

  4. aYo says:
    May 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Its a cool idea Tink. By the way long time no see. How are things?

  5. Tink says:
    May 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Yeah I’m very good bud. FOTB?

    Will we see you in the bar this time?

  6. josh >> /dev/blog & » Blog Archive » AS4 naming conventions says:
    May 6, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    [...] ow? AS3, Flash AS4 naming conventions05.06.08 | Comment? I just read Tink’s post on the nonsensical names of the core ActionScript packages: flash, fl, mx and air. In [...]

  7. Ozgur Uksal says:
    May 6, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    It is a nice suggestion Tink. It is annoying to use nonsense package names like mx etc. It is a good idea to have
    player = Flash Player
    flash = Flash
    flex = Flex
    air = AIR

  8. josh >> /dev/blog & » Blog Archive » sensible package names campaign! show your support! says:
    July 22, 2008 at 12:40 am

    [...] kage names campaign! show your support!07.22.08 | Comment? The bug reported by Tink on sensible package names for Flash/Flex/AIR is open. I have also made some refinement suggest [...]

  9. Campbell says:
    July 22, 2008 at 4:57 am

    With that and threading I would be a happy boy ;)

  10. Matt Chotin (Adobe) says:
    July 23, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Changing packages of existing code would have some pretty huge compatibility problems. But we are working on packaging guidelines for our stuff moving forward.

  11. Tink says:
    July 23, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Hey Matt

    Pretty much why I thought the suggestion would be quashed straight away. That said the package name are in a pretty mixed up state at the moment.

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