6 ms·

Adobe Open Source

129 points by lelf 9y ago

blahblah1234 9y ago
I didn't even know this was a thing. Sounds like a great idea. Although with adobe's track record like with coldfusion i don't know about this one
- sebazzz 9y ago
  What is Adobe's track record with ColdFusion?
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    ColdFusion wasn't always owned by Adobe. The software was developed by Allaire in 1995. Macromedia bought Allaire in 2001, and Adobe bought Macromedia in 2005 [1]. My memory is from end of '90s and it had a terrible track record back then, security-wise. Here's the current track record from '06 and onward [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion [2] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/8739/Adobe-Coldfusion.html?vendor_id=53 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/8739/Adobe-Coldfusion.htm...
- bdcravens 9y ago
  Likely Adobe won't ever open source ColdFusion with a perfectly viable version already available. http://lucee.org http://lucee.org
neelkadia 9y ago
Snap.SVG is great!
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
geokon 9y ago
Does anyone knows what's up with Boost GIL by Adobe? It's not hosted here, but it's on their website: https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ (With no updates in 10 years :S) Is it abandoned...? Is it "done"? (Or has everyone moved on to some other library?) I really liked the template magic it did. It was so generic and flexible with image formats while being very performant. Really puts to shame the garbage that's in OpenCV
- exikyut 9y ago
  From 5 minutes of googling it looks to me like it's been collectively quietly moved on from, but that it's not broken. Put it this way: it's in Boost. Boost is an established standard. If a library in Boost suddenly stopped working because of language changes, that would produce some kind of response. In GIL's case, it looks like may be a reasonable number of quiet users of GIL, so any such "okay, we need to do something about this" might be met with a collective "wait, hold up, let's fix it." Note I said might. I honestly have no idea. What I did was search for "adobe gil" but date-restricted the search to after 2007: https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2008%2Ccd_max%3A https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_m... That gave me http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of-the-Gil-extension-numeric-td4643192.html http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of... - from 2010 https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/default/commits https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/d...: - most recent commit 2013 - most recent downloadable file 2010 - one export to github, https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master, that hasn't made any changes (github commit list === google code commit list) - result http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.cpp http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.... says to look at http://opensource.adobe.com/gil http://opensource.adobe.com/gil, this redirects to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/. Jumping manually to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ leads me to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/, which shows updates from 2007. BUT. I tried refining my google search to `adobe "gil"`, including the quotes. The first result? https://github.com/boostorg/gil https://github.com/boostorg/gil And then... https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop shows commits from last month. Objectively speaking it's not, say, React. There were a bunch of commits in 2013-14. The project only has 15 stars, 7 watches and 20 forks, but - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors shows a total code churn of 214,889 added lines, 99388 removed lines (data without context - could be due to version control shuffling) between about 15 committers (I didn't count them) - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse shows... not much, because I can only show 1 month max :( - Of the 4 issues, none have been closed, but there is extensive discussion between maintainers on one of them (on what looks like a setup issue). I don't know what to make of this repo, here's hoping if you poke it you'll get a nice result. :P
Navarr 9y ago
I'm very surprised that adobe isn't using a custom hostname. PaaS are transient, but URLs are "forever"
- kensign 9y ago
  this makes it official. :/
denisehilton 9y ago
It's nice to know that the biggest tech brands are slowly moving towards open source. That does reassure common men like us.
- ttoinou 9y ago
  "2 years 8 months since last commit" :p
  - bmaupin 9y ago
    It says "11 months since last commit" for me. Either way it's wrong. Brackets was updated 3 hours ago (https://github.com/adobe https://github.com/adobe)
    - petetnt 9y ago
      There was a short quieter period when Adobe was incorporating Brackets to Dreamweaver, but since then we have done tons of new features, bug fixes and a steady stream of releases. We are always looking for new contributors and can help to get started with the codebase! Join our Slack or post on GitHub! (Disclaimer: I am a non-Adobe core contributor of Brackets).
- tannhaeuser 9y ago
  Adobe is sitting on tons of software and could open source a whole lot more, such as their embedded JS (ES3?) engine and maybe older FrameMaker sources and other print-era renderers they don't have a direct commercial interest in anymore.
  - ttoinou 9y ago
    Well I wouldn't want them to open source After Effects for example, reading their source code would hurt me so much
  - heroprotagonist 9y ago
    I agree with the idea itself, but just want to point out that they still have commercial interest in print rendering. InDesign is the evolution of FrameMaker.
mcappleton 9y ago
Brackets is pretty good and it's very fast for a hybrid. I don't use it much these days though except when I just want to use a different editor for a change.
geff82 9y ago
How much a month does the subscription to the open source code cost? ;)
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  $30 USD a month, or $150 CAD, and you have to commit to a year at signup. Cancellation fee is 99% of the remaining term. Kidding aside --- any plans for Adobe to open-source Coral UI? I work with projects that run right beside AEM but not within it, and it would be great to make that entire experience seamless.
userbinator 9y ago
https://github.com/adobe/flash-platform https://github.com/adobe/flash-platform A place for them to put Flash after they stop supporting it?
- neves 9y ago
  Would I be able to submit a patch to uninstall the Intel True Key bloatware that comes with Flash? Nobody is able to remove this piece of sh.. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2126934 https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2126934

129 points by lelf 9y ago

I didn't even know this was a thing. Sounds like a great idea. Although with adobe's track record like with coldfusion i don't know about this one

sebazzz 9y ago
What is Adobe's track record with ColdFusion?
- Fnoord 9y ago
  ColdFusion wasn't always owned by Adobe. The software was developed by Allaire in 1995. Macromedia bought Allaire in 2001, and Adobe bought Macromedia in 2005 [1]. My memory is from end of '90s and it had a terrible track record back then, security-wise. Here's the current track record from '06 and onward [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion [2] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/8739/Adobe-Coldfusion.html?vendor_id=53 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/8739/Adobe-Coldfusion.htm...
bdcravens 9y ago
Likely Adobe won't ever open source ColdFusion with a perfectly viable version already available. http://lucee.org http://lucee.org

neelkadia 9y ago

Snap.SVG is great!

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

geokon 9y ago

Does anyone knows what's up with Boost GIL by Adobe? It's not hosted here, but it's on their website: https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ (With no updates in 10 years :S) Is it abandoned...? Is it "done"? (Or has everyone moved on to some other library?) I really liked the template magic it did. It was so generic and flexible with image formats while being very performant. Really puts to shame the garbage that's in OpenCV

exikyut 9y ago
From 5 minutes of googling it looks to me like it's been collectively quietly moved on from, but that it's not broken. Put it this way: it's in Boost. Boost is an established standard. If a library in Boost suddenly stopped working because of language changes, that would produce some kind of response. In GIL's case, it looks like may be a reasonable number of quiet users of GIL, so any such "okay, we need to do something about this" might be met with a collective "wait, hold up, let's fix it." Note I said might. I honestly have no idea. What I did was search for "adobe gil" but date-restricted the search to after 2007: https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2008%2Ccd_max%3A https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_m... That gave me http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of-the-Gil-extension-numeric-td4643192.html http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of... - from 2010 https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/default/commits https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/d...: - most recent commit 2013 - most recent downloadable file 2010 - one export to github, https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master, that hasn't made any changes (github commit list === google code commit list) - result http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.cpp http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.... says to look at http://opensource.adobe.com/gil http://opensource.adobe.com/gil, this redirects to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/. Jumping manually to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ leads me to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/, which shows updates from 2007. BUT. I tried refining my google search to `adobe "gil"`, including the quotes. The first result? https://github.com/boostorg/gil https://github.com/boostorg/gil And then... https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop shows commits from last month. Objectively speaking it's not, say, React. There were a bunch of commits in 2013-14. The project only has 15 stars, 7 watches and 20 forks, but - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors shows a total code churn of 214,889 added lines, 99388 removed lines (data without context - could be due to version control shuffling) between about 15 committers (I didn't count them) - https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse shows... not much, because I can only show 1 month max :( - Of the 4 issues, none have been closed, but there is extensive discussion between maintainers on one of them (on what looks like a setup issue). I don't know what to make of this repo, here's hoping if you poke it you'll get a nice result. :P

Navarr 9y ago

I'm very surprised that adobe isn't using a custom hostname. PaaS are transient, but URLs are "forever"

kensign 9y ago
this makes it official. :/

denisehilton 9y ago

It's nice to know that the biggest tech brands are slowly moving towards open source. That does reassure common men like us.

ttoinou 9y ago
"2 years 8 months since last commit" :p
- bmaupin 9y ago
  It says "11 months since last commit" for me. Either way it's wrong. Brackets was updated 3 hours ago (https://github.com/adobe https://github.com/adobe)
  - petetnt 9y ago
    There was a short quieter period when Adobe was incorporating Brackets to Dreamweaver, but since then we have done tons of new features, bug fixes and a steady stream of releases. We are always looking for new contributors and can help to get started with the codebase! Join our Slack or post on GitHub! (Disclaimer: I am a non-Adobe core contributor of Brackets).
tannhaeuser 9y ago
Adobe is sitting on tons of software and could open source a whole lot more, such as their embedded JS (ES3?) engine and maybe older FrameMaker sources and other print-era renderers they don't have a direct commercial interest in anymore.
- ttoinou 9y ago
  Well I wouldn't want them to open source After Effects for example, reading their source code would hurt me so much
- heroprotagonist 9y ago
  I agree with the idea itself, but just want to point out that they still have commercial interest in print rendering. InDesign is the evolution of FrameMaker.

mcappleton 9y ago

Brackets is pretty good and it's very fast for a hybrid. I don't use it much these days though except when I just want to use a different editor for a change.

geff82 9y ago

How much a month does the subscription to the open source code cost? ;)

52-6F-62 9y ago
$30 USD a month, or $150 CAD, and you have to commit to a year at signup. Cancellation fee is 99% of the remaining term. Kidding aside --- any plans for Adobe to open-source Coral UI? I work with projects that run right beside AEM but not within it, and it would be great to make that entire experience seamless.

userbinator 9y ago

https://github.com/adobe/flash-platform https://github.com/adobe/flash-platform A place for them to put Flash after they stop supporting it?

neves 9y ago
Would I be able to submit a patch to uninstall the Intel True Key bloatware that comes with Flash? Nobody is able to remove this piece of sh.. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2126934 https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2126934