From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 18:08:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D84B1065672 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51E8FC27 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1465635fgb.35 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=kXkCyQJREQnGXgFQZrDo8+CfAJo7lfzr8dZV4KJO7d8=; b=JrGOVwpjOVkRRIlRl8yimPfyq/Fu+J251VTZpomreQ17BjvTn5SIIO+eli40m5MFrR fBmHx0FGZV2QDkdZpPgBRbrvl/mkV5lXP7Z/aHSNQ5V3E5ZAls6eLxLJxF7L7BD8SVMq JU3UY2r2foOShQMFsYFepTiKLAhM6zX+p1/I4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=e4pGI8FrZAsnZDbqr7RAwzyetvCURuK+EXO973Edu0K3nvDR9k5MBU7n8FzDprsXUe P/OXKFiyPEjjz7kqcR0mp0srf4zlFVRWQWKNjIbB3xcz1/9SPb8H0zDuO55h3jcgc7TH t79LThfKm7Tc6z0XONUoRRFYYgLF38+PWdwjc= Received: by 10.86.73.7 with SMTP id v7mr9220090fga.37.1214329227644; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.51.1 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0806241040x6ed9dea6y79d2c2d62ff1b30f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:40:27 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: shildreth@allantgroup.com In-Reply-To: <1214322926.1505.65.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <20080624083829.T1807@kozubik.com> <1214322926.1505.65.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Cc: jamie@bishopston.net, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger , narayan@neelum.com Subject: Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established... X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:27 -0000 On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >> >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> > > Quoting John Kozubik (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008 >> > > 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)): >> > > >> > > > First, a bounty has been posted here: >> > > > >> > > > http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > Maybe the bounty would be better spent here, >> > >> > This was from an email on the gnome list from Joe Marcus Clarke >> > >> > "As to the point about Flash, Kris also mentioned that he has the ear of >> > someone at Adobe who was hinting that a capable developer willing to >> > sign an NDA could be given code to work on a native Flash plug-in port. >> > This could bode well for PC-BSD and FreeBSD should someone step up to >> > do this work." >> >> >> Perfect. This is exactly what the bounty: >> >> http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html >> >> is for. I suggest that if you think this is important (as I do) to post a >> commitment to the bounty, and presumably someone will step forward to >> speak with Kris, sign an NDA, and get the FreeBSD desktop back to a >> reasonable level of utility. > > I wonder how much of a task it would be? Does anyone have any idea what > language the clients are written in? Look into Spidermonkey for more details: http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ It was designed to be the bridge between ActiveScript and Mozilla, allowing the Adobe folks to code Flash in terms of ActiveScript, instead of completely in C, thus making things more portable. I offered to work with the Mozilla group to get ActiveScript ported over to FreeBSD but I haven't received a reply in a year of having posted my "bug report". (not designed to be troll-bait, just my personal opinion on the matter -- don't comment on it please) FWIW, Personally I don't think that Flash support is as critical as getting working x64 compatible OpenGL enabled video drivers, but then again my opinion differs from your's most likely. -Garrett