I agree with Nicholas, Just make it. It will be usable for standalone purposes, a toy for developers, etc.
But for the web (win & mac) it won't be a thread (to the super great fp8, soon to be fp8.5). Suppose it's gonna work, and that gnash is really super compatible with fp7 (the only way it has a little chance to compete as a browser plugin, otherwise people leave it right away, (or they would be massochastic. Hmmmm but then again how many people are still using MS Word.... )). But ok, if it's going to work, It's then still very much behind... In the mean time we will have 8.5... And for the big distros like red hat there IS a player 7 (ok true, buggy I heard). So if you choose to go really exotic and there is no player for that distro, than that is your choice... I mean you don't HAVE to right? So it can be useful for exotic linux flavours to see some web content that otherwise couldn't be seen, but then again. Some guys are already developing for fp8. Then you still have a problem. So I don't really bother and sure would like to see it! But I'm sure I'm not gonna develop for it unless the install base is bigger than like 3%. But that is more than all linux desktops together! (just my estimation, correct me if I'm wrong...) And how are you gonna test your code anyway on all those exotic linux flavours? I mean you really have to be sure the plugin is damn good to just trust that your app is going to work on some 64-bit 0.001% usebase linux distro that you can't test on cause you ain't got it. This is for me the main reason linux sucks as a desktop env to develop for. To many flavours with differences. For servers it's great though. I also don't understand the remark someone made that flash isn't a serious platform if won't run on all linux pc's? I really honestly thought that "windows" is a platform as well? Pretty serious too if you see it's market share :) i just hope the fp8.5 for linux will be ok. I'll put my money on that one... ah well... Arnoud _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
