Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

Magnus Glantz <mg@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:44:31 +0100



    On 11/17/2010 09:30 PM, Ugis Fedora wrote:
    
      
      > From:
        jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

      > To:
        devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

      > Date:
        Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:16:20 -0500

      >
        Subject: Re: Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

      > CC:
        fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx

      > 

      > On Wed,
        2010-11-17 at 08:57 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:

      > 

      > >
        This solution could be reverting the problem causing glibc
        change, or

      > >
        maybe changing it to do forward memcpy's while still using the
        new SSE

      > >
        instructions, or something more specific to the flash plugin, as
        long

      > > as it
        will automatically fix things with a yum upgrade without
        requiring

        > > any further user intervention.

        > > 

        > > I would also like to point out that if this were to
        happen in Ubuntu

        > > which we sometimes look at jealously for getting more
        attention / users

        > > then us, the glibc change would likely be reverted
        immediately, as that

        > > is the right thing to do from an end user pov.

        > > 

        > > I've filed a ticket for FESCo to look into this, as I
        believe this

        > > makes us look really bad, and the glibc maintainers do
        not seem to be

        > > willing to fix it without some sort of intervention:

        > > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/501

        
      Isn't
          only 64-bit preview release affected?
      

      from
          adobe's website...
      
          
          http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
      

        >>We
          have made this preview available so that users can test
          existing content and new platforms for compatibility and
          stability. Because this is a preview version of Flash Player,
          we don’t expect it >>to be as stable as a final release
          version of Flash Player. Use caution when installing Flash
          Player "Square" on production machines.
      

      If
          they don't expect it to work properly why should we?
    
    Because a large part of the Fedora users, uses the flash plugin from
    Adobe, and if it does not work, they will go off and find a
    distribution where it does work. With less people using Fedora, the
    project becomes less successful, as less people will be
    contributing. 

    For me it's natural that we should care about the end-user
    experience of Fedora, even if that does include us caring about
    application outside of the Fedora owned repositories.

    
    Cheers,

    Magnus

  
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