Welcome to the redtamarin project.

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Simply put, redtamarin is based on the Tamarin project (eg. the Flash Player Virtual Machine) and allow to run AS3 code on the command-line.

But because Tamarin only support the AS3 builtins (Object, Array, etc.), redtamarin add numerous native functionalities, so you can test if your program run under Windows or Linux, or read/write files, or send data with sockets, etc.

Put another way, if Adobe AIR allow you to build desktop executable with a GUI, redtamarin allow you to build desktop/server executable with a CLI.

Mission Statement

To support the use of the AS3 language for cross-platform command-line executable, as single exe either for the desktop or the server, as scripts for automation, as tools for the Flash Platform community.

Status

• this project started because I'm a fan of JSDB but I prefer to write my code in AS3
• then I thought why not make something like AIR but for the command-line
• I started a bit shy in my corner without promoting the project at all, but it appears 600+ people downloaded it
• getting somewhat better at C/C++ and having a huge needs for command-line tools in AS3 I started to rethink the project
• I'm now completely dedicated (if not obsessed) to implement a lot of functionalities
• there has been a drop of activity between october and december 2010 (new job)

Goals

• the short goal of the project is to provide most of the C standard library (ANSI and POSIX) to an ActionScript environment. - DONE
• the medium goal is to provide specialized libraries to use sockets or database like SQLite etc.
• FileSystem API DONE (adding even more)
• OperatingSystem API DONE
• basic socket (stream, datagram, broadcast, client, server) DONE
• (more to come)
• the long term goal is to provide a native API that replicate some part of the Flash Player and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) API
• I'm bad a documenting, so I'll try this time to document on the go and provide example for all the APIs
• some people contact me by email, when I can, I add features related to their needs

Sync

here the list of sync from the http://code.google.com/p/redshell project, which is a mirror of tamarin-redux

• 25/07/2010 tamarin-redux-e07844ed9e
• 26/12/2010 tamarin-redux-d8b78be5b40f
• 26/12/2011 tamarin-redux-6fee29500342

History

At first I was using a mixed system to update from Mercurial and then sync to a local subversion repository and then sync to the google code project, then later I was using another mixed system that was mixing directories from both the Tamarin mercurial repo and this project SVN repo, both were not practical, hard to update.

Also, messing a little too much with the Tamarin source code, I ended up having dirty C/C++ code.

Since the Tamarin release 703:2cee46be9ce0 (02/12/2008), I decided to make it cleaner.

Now from redtamarin v0.2, the source code of Tamarin is fully sync'ed in this project repository, and as the C/C++ is better organized, update etc. should stay clean in the futur :). <-- this has failed big time

As of 25/07/2010 redtamarin have taken a completely different approach

• now we use the redshell project to stay in sync' with tamarin-redux (sync is done every week more often :p)
• from redshell, we do an hg archive and overwrite the /tamarin-redux directory, see this change for example.
• etc. (TODO explain the other changes)

The code is currently tested and compiled on those systems:

• Mac OS X 10.6.2
• Windows XP SP3
• Linux Ubuntu 8.04.3 Desktop
• more to come (especially 64bit versions)

contributors welcome!, even if it just compiling on your system :)
send an email [my username] @ gmail (dot) com