From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 22:56:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6948516A417 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F85613C457 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn05.u.washington.edu (hymn05.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.184]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.06) with ESMTP id l6RMuEVk022264 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn05.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l6RMuEqf012918; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:14 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.2] by hymn05.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:14 PDT Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Kris Moore In-Reply-To: <46AA5977.9080206@pcbsd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.2.304607, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.7.27.153338 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='SUPERLONG_LINE 0.05, NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we ready for Native Flash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:56:17 -0000 On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Kris Moore wrote: > > Hey, just wanted to give folks a heads up. I'm hearing that we may be > seeing a native Flash binary for FreeBSD in the future, depending on how > quick we can port over Tamarin: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > > They are working on a Linux port now, if anybody is interested in > getting a FBSD port done that will help us a TON in getting Adobe to > release Flash9 in a native FreeBSD format. No more Linux-emulation just > to surf the web! > > > -- > > Kris Moore > PC-BSD Software > http://www.pcbsd.com That will be nice, and you're more than welcome to start porting ;), but note the following line: Tamarin will support the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 ("JS2") language and will be integrated into SpiderMonkey as part of the Mozilla 2 project, to be released in 2008. Brendan Eich's Roadmap Update for Mozilla 2 provides broad details on Mozilla 2 and Tamarin's role in this roadmap. So, I wouldn't get too anxious about this becoming production quality until 2k8 rolls around, unless the Mozilla group does really well putting Actionscript in place. -Garrett