From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 13:42:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5C916A41A for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D0713C4E3 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kitchetech@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so5730096rvb.43 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:42:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=otN7/6AsLU9PI6WS7oqVTHo31nj7AOIZCanPl/1P+BI=; b=ozGZGuZpoJJdHPN9e9o8IJQSYJ9ae00VzUVg1uzajj9A9iah6yTvPDosg/9JCV8bnKLdPVatHAyFN4kTX8NlMnHolgg37fPoKaFOIpOt//h6CuSbKUoDpVLU768MNZh2a00oWlHo1rnXj6vWV/IA50av+Xkqqj6rkXBYHBZr9wo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=EhOEQBIDaVoT4MECoUCQYap2XaRM+hvWohcwg7Kyq+YmSDax8aw5lk2IlZzp3O79PjHftL5MwqgeQ0anQ0sSA7Ts5ABG8cWa4cJTzaUlaSZ63X52SCKR88oNNt8/cclxNf81Uz3CR1OaWRykV1SzmvBiz7Co+c0Dj8XukUv5DJw= Received: by 10.141.76.21 with SMTP id d21mr7304464rvl.114.1199279776205; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.132.4 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 05:16:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <28283d910801020516s9819d2dpc646066c454fb90a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:16:16 -0500 From: "matt donovan" Sender: kitchetech@gmail.com To: "Tim Clewlow" In-Reply-To: <113036.60157.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080101072827.GA1277@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> <113036.60157.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1f93b157b1a67c76 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty announced for Flash9 in Opera in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:42:52 -0000 On Jan 1, 2008 4:19 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > --- Szilveszter Adam wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:13:30PM -0800, John Kozubik wrote: > > > > > > > > > "... I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable > recipe > > > for running Adobe Flash 9 inside of the FreeBSD native version of > Opera 9 > > > on FreeBSD 6.x. This shouldn't be that hard - in fact, there is > already a > > > linux-flashplugin9 port. > > > > Well, perhaps it should be noted that even though a port exists for > > Flash 9, it does not really work even with the linux-firefox port, the > > browser locks up from time to time with it even on sites that work > > OK with Flash 7 + native or linux-firefox. So there may be some more > > work to do than just the Opera part. > > > > -- > > Regards: > > > > Szilveszter ADAM > > Budapest > > Hungary > > Just one more idea - how about we do it ourselves. I'm guessing there are > a > number of people who want to have native flash 9 working in the netscape > family > of browsers, in particular firefox. Maybe the maintainer(s) who put > together > flash 7 can let us know what needs to be done, and we could help each > other > with creating the code together. It could be an opportunity for new people > to > learn how to code for FreeBSD, I suspect there are many out there who want > to > contribute, but are not that sure how (the ports system alone can be > intimidating at first glance). So how about we get together and show each > other > how. > > Just a thought, Tim. > > > Well I can ell you the issue is that nspluginwrapper is broken with > flash9, it's due to libgobject that makes it crash and the flash9 in ports > by default is broken right now due to adobe changing the .tar.gz for flash9 > I did update the port on my end. But have not diff my port so I could send a > pr for it. >