Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/11/11 Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Please explain why releasing 0.8.3 would be a mistake and why 0.8.4 >> solves that? It's just impossible to review such a big diff that >> targeted fixes are preferred in general... > > I know the diff is quite big, the current release cycle for Gnash is 6 > months and there is a lot of work among different versions, as there > are many people are working on it. > >> It sounds a bit strange that you won't accept responsability while you >> didn't explain why 0.8.3 is not worth releasing. >> >> I can assure you that nothing is lost already and that I try to be >> reasonable. > > This is the list of improvements since 0.8.3: > > * Keep Adobe happy with our users and our users happy with us by > changing "Flash player" into "SWF player" everywhere. Adobe > claims "Flash" as a trademark and had asked a Linux distributor > to fix it. > * The popular SWF Twitter badge now renders correctly. > * Fix parsing of urls containing multiple question marks > * Fix support for movies embedding multiple sound streams > * Support for loading PNG and GIF images added. > * Improved rendering of SWF movies because of the less visible > changes listed below. > * Support for writing RGB/RGBA PNG images and JPEG images. > * Works with Potlatch OpenStreetMap editor > * New 'flvdumper' utility for analyzing FLV video files. > * XPI packaging support for Mozilla & Firefox. > > Gnash is much more stable now, regressions in video playback in 0.8.3 > have been fixed, and Youtube now works fine. > > "It'll hurt more to ship Gnash 0.8.3 with 8.2.0 than Gnash 0.8.4 RC1" [3] > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash/2008-10/msg00002.html > [2] http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/www/gnash-0.8.4.tar.gz:a/gnash-0.8.4/NEWS > [3] > http://n2.nabble.com/Fwd:-ship-Gnash-0.8.4-RC1-in-OLPC-8.2.0--td1322121.html > > On the other side, as there are no reverse dependencies on Gnash (at > least that I'm aware of), no other packages would be affected by the > change.
unblocked, set age-days to 20. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
