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Andrew Savchenko schrieb: |
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>> # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> (29 Aug 2015) |
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>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive. |
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>> # (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140) |
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>> www-plugins/gnash |
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> Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free |
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> software. And there still many sites which require flash to work. |
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The following other free flash implementations exist: |
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* LightSpark: active development, ASv2 only |
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* swfdec: development stopped in 2009 |
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* Shumway: abandoned by Mozilla in 2016, very low development activity still |
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happens in github[0] |
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I think your best bet to replace gnash would be Shumway. Though it is not |
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possible to use on current Firefox[1]. |
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> So maybe mask it, but not remove? |
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Current gnash snapshot in the tree can only build against a specific set of |
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dependencies, which may disappear any time now (newer versions are stable). |
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I tried to build upstream git head, but it fails. This was reported a year |
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ago, no reaction from upstream: |
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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51484 |
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If it is impossible to build, then I think having it in the tree has no value. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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[0] https://github.com/ExE-Boss/mozilla-shumway |
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[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443253 |
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