On 12/1/05, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also know that the 8.5 Player throws a monkeywrench into any 8.0 > > porting -- I haven't heard any official word on this, but it seems > > trickier to do two separate ports in succession, where one port would > > have a life of only a few months. > > well, a 8.5 player for linux would be ok, too :) > > i keep checking the job opening Tinic linked to from his blog entry > every other week or so, hoping it would go away: > http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/hr/reqs/engineering/2907br.html > my guess is that as long as this position isn't closed the player is > still far off. > > i know you want to release a linux player, and that you want it to be > good. but it's getting increasingly frustrating to come across more > and more sites that require FP8 and not being able to use them without > launching a windows firefox under wine. "flash platform" really > shouldn't mean "windows & mac only". it would be nice if you could > communicate that to the powers that be. > > mark > > > On 12/1/05, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Giotta wrote: > > > Has anyone heard anything about a Player 8 for Linux release date? > > > > I haven't seen any hard info yet. (Right now there are a whole bunch of > > questions about the future piled up behind the final governmental > > approvals of the mergers, and I suspect things like Linux are tied in > > with the bunch.) > > > > As Tim noted, as the Player adds more features, it becomes more > > difficult to support them on operating systems with fewer media > > architectures: > > http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/08/porting-flash-player-to-alternative.html > > > > I also know that the 8.5 Player throws a monkeywrench into any 8.0 > > porting -- I haven't heard any official word on this, but it seems > > trickier to do two separate ports in succession, where one port would > > have a life of only a few months. > > > > So... I'm sorry, I don't have any solid info here yet. I'm hoping we get > > some soon. The above are some of the ingredients that go into the > > decisionmaking, but I'm still not sure which way things would play out. > > The overall goal is to make people happy, if that general orientation is > > useful. > > > > jd > > > >
Didn't it take like 10 months after the win/mac players, for the flash 7 linux player to come out? Does anyone have the exact dates/timeline handy? for 6 as well perhaps (Back when they were more supporting of linux, working with WINE to get the IDE to run under it). It might be useful as a rough indicator of how long we can expect to wait. -David R _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
