Re: [Gnash-dev] firefox plugin feature request

[Micah Gersten]

On 08/22/2012 11:56 AM, Patrick Alken wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>   I would like to try out the latest gnash firefox plugin, but there
> does not seem to be anything pre-compiled available for download. I'm
> using an older release of ubuntu which only ships with a very old
> version of gnash (0.8.7) and I understand newer versions are much
> improved.
>
> Adobe Flash has always made available a simple .so file for download
> which you just stick in your mozilla/plugins folder and it just works,
> regardless of your linux distro. Why can't gnash do something similar?
> I think this would encourage many more people to give it a try if you
> provided a .so file which just works.

If you'd request an official backport from precise to lucid [1], I'd be
happy to process it if you're willing to test it.  I've been wanting to
SRU [2] it for a while, but haven't done the paperwork or the testing.

Thanks,
Micah Gersten
Ubuntu Developer

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports/+filebug
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates