[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-05 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:19:12 +0300 as excerpted: On 09/05/2009 01:24 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote: Is gnash still under development (as an open source alternative to Adobe flash)? TTBOMK [1], gnash is now a GNU sponsored project, one I believe they are actually paying

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-05 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 05/09/2009 11:25, Duncan a écrit : [...] This is off-topic for gentoo-dev. Please continue this discussion in private. Thanks Rémi

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 04/09/2009 22:41, Andrew John Hughes a écrit : So there'll be no Free Flash support in Gentoo any more? I hope someone will pick this up, this is a high priority FSF project after all. There's media-libs/swfdec that's still offically maintained by the Gnome herd. As far as gnash is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Romain Perier
Le vendredi 04 septembre 2009 à 22:56 +0200, Rémi Cardona a écrit : Le 04/09/2009 22:41, Andrew John Hughes a écrit : So there'll be no Free Flash support in Gentoo any more? I hope someone will pick this up, this is a high priority FSF project after all. There's media-libs/swfdec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Robert Bradbury
I've used the gnash plugin because earlier Flash releases were so problematic (crashing Flash would generally crash Firefox). But generally migrated away from Flash as it seemed to become more and more of an advertising distribution medium that one had no user control over (this is a subjective

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/05/2009 01:24 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote: I've used the gnash plugin because earlier Flash releases were so problematic (crashing Flash would generally crash Firefox). But generally migrated away from Flash as it seemed to become more and more of an advertising distribution medium that one