Is the "ActionScript 2.0 compiler" (mentioned in latest AIR 3.8 beta notes) for AS2 code?

[IQpierce0]

This page says:

"ActionScript 2.0 Compiler: The Actionscript Compiler 2.0 has been incorporated into the AIR SDK 3.8 (named 'AIR SDK 3.8 & Compiler') and retired as a separate download from Adobe Labs on March 14, 2013."

I'm working on an AIR Mobile project where we would probably be saved about 6 months of intensive work if some of our legacy AS2 code could be compiled and run in AIR Mobile for iOS. So if there is actually an "ActionScript 2.0 Compiler" in AIR SDK 3.8, that would be fantastic to hear.

However I suspect that this note has nothing to do with actually "compiling ActionScript 2.0 code"; I suspect this simply refers to version 2.0 of the "ActionScript Compiler". (Which is of course the same as the old "Flex Compiler." Which of course had nothing to do with the "Flex framework".)

Clarification would be appreciated!

[Apocalyptic0n3 · Accepted solution]

No, the ActionScript Compiler 2.0 is just the new version of the compiler. Adobe AIR does not support AS2 at all. And given that Adobe has dropped AS2 support from Flash Pro, don't expect there to be any AIR support either.

[IQpierce0]

Thanks Apocalyptic0n3.

Anton, I was not mixing definitions, Adobe was. AS2 is "ActionScript 2.0". Adobe made a page that says that the "ActionScript 2.0 Compiler" is now included in AIR 3.8. Hence my desire for clarification.

[User Unknow]

Don't mix definitions. As2 compiler and as complier 2.0 it's two different things.

Description meaning that air has embedded new compiler 2.0 that allow use some nowadays feature set. This s not the same as as2 complier )

U can't compile to as2. Refactor to as3 instead. As3 can be complied using default 1.0 complier and new one 2.0 but this is not old as2 source code ) so dont mix definitions