Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:16:16 -0500 From: "matt donovan" <kitche@kitchetech.com> To: "Tim Clewlow" <tim1timau@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty announced for Flash9 in Opera in FreeBSD Message-ID: <28283d910801020516s9819d2dpc646066c454fb90a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <113036.60157.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <20080101072827.GA1277@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> <113036.60157.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Jan 1, 2008 4:19 AM, Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> 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. >
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