Re: [Gnash-dev] Re: Configure the browser plugin to not print messages to stdout/stderr?

[Rob Savoye]

On 12/20/09 10:34, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> I mean by trying to install mozilla-plugin-gnash and
> konqueror-plugin-gnash together.

  I'll check, I'm working on the packaging files for Debian now. Part of
my problem was the machine I was building on had odd versions of things
(as I upgrade every 6 months, install of a fresh install). So I'm
cleaning out the old crufty stuff and tweaking files on my karmic
machine. Maybe I can get my Debian build slave to boot.

> Well, given that we lack the man-power to maintain our own set of
> gnash packages (to ensure timely bug and security fixes for the
> duration of the Debian Edu/Lenny lifetime), it is the best option.

  At one point the Debian packages for Gnash were up to date, I don't
know why they aren;'t now. Ubuntu stays uptodate with our current
versions, so it can't be that hard. I also barely have the time to
maintain packaging files, but do so because we fix so many bugs between
releases, it's often the only way (other than compiling from source) for
users to get version that work for them. I'd gladly work with whomever
is or can be a package maintainer to get the current release of 0.8.6
into Lenny.

> The alternative is to drop Gnash completely from the default build and
> ask schools to install the Adobe Flash packages if they need Flash.

  I thought that's what you were already doing.

> Several of our test sites as listed on <URL:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/FlashInDebianEdu > do not work as
> they should with gnash, and until they do it is hard for schools to

  I tried a handful of those links at random with Gnash trunk, and they
appear to mostly all work. Maybe I'm missing something. Basing what
works or not on an ancient, seriously out of date release doesn't
accomplish anything.

> use only free software.  I really hope Gnash reach that point soon,
> preferably in time for Debian/Squeeze. :)

  Well, we're seriously under-resourced these days, down to a small
handful of developers hacking part-time, and a mostly broken build farm.
:-( Everbody wants Gnash to be completely compatible, but almost nobody
seems to want to help us get there...

        - rob -