From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 02:21:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF0A1065690 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtai104.cox.net (eastrmmtai104.cox.net [68.230.240.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0FB8FC1B for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080804020712.LYBP2096.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:07:12 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.38.192]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id y27C1Z00848kqrs0227C14; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:07:12 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org (conrads@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7427BB1006167; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:07:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:07:11 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Martin Tournoij Message-ID: <20080803210711.6a0612a8@serene.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20080626103955.GA28128@rwxrwxrwx.net> References: <20080626103955.GA28128@rwxrwxrwx.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chat@freebsd.org, carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:21:07 -0000 On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij wrote: > Sign it here: > > http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html [snip] Well, personally, I'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness, so... Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash, built and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than the latest release version (0.8.3). Sites that wouldn't work properly before are now displaying beautifully. Here's a good example of a site that would break before, but works now: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#downloading for info on how to obtain the sources. You'll need to install devel/bazaar-ng (yes, yet another version control system!) to fetch the code. To configure, I ran "gnash -V" using the existing (0.8.3) version and copied the configuration switches from the resulting output. Then ran gmake to build and install (after pkg_deleting the old version, of course). I'm pleased with the results. Still not 100% perfect, but a whole heck of a lot better. -- PROOF OF GOD #391. ARGUMENT FROM UNDERSTANDING (1) You're not meant to understand. (2) Therefore, God exists.