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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:59 -0500
From:      eculp <eculp@encontacto.net>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...
Message-ID:  <20080620104459.1393510x2w93m6ck@intranet.encontacto.net>
In-Reply-To: <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
References:  <20080619135114.Y1807@kozubik.com> <20080620083906.71332251xw1ckmu8@webmail.leidinger.net> <1213972236.1505.14.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>

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Quoting "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com>:

>
>
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> (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 =20
> <marcus@freebsd.org>
>
> "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."
>
It would seem ideal to have a freebsd person with access to adobe code =20
and should facilitate future flash ports.

I would join in with $100 (dollars I suppose) from my paypal account.  =20
The only place I have dollars available.  That would bring it up to =20
$300 and should help future development.

my .02 worth,

ed


PS IIRC, someone sent a link to a howto to get flash9 working on =20
current i386 at most a couple of weeks ago on one of the lists.  I =20
can't find the link.  If someone has it I would appreciate your =20
sending it to test it out.
>
>>  From the site:
>> ---snip---
>> 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.
>> ---snip---
>>
>> Comments from other people with some more money not included here...
>>
>> And now the sad reality check: linux-flashplugin9 will _never_ work on
>> 6.x (lack of linux 2.6 emulation, and this is not a MFC candidate).
>>
>> Getting it to work on 7.x is possible. "All what you need" is
>> nspluginwrapper to get it running in the native
>> firefox/opera/whatever, and someone who is willing to debug the
>> linuxulator (on -current, as there is a more complete 2.6
>> compatibility there, and this can be MFCed to 7.x) and find the
>> bug/problem which is causing the crashes. Whoever is willing to tackle
>> this: head over to emulation@ (CCed) and ask what debugging
>> possibilities we have in the linuxulator.
>>
>> Note: AFAIK linux-flashplugin9 is not completely stable on linux either..=
.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>>
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