----- "Chris Campbell" <campbecg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This probably isn't the best place to write this, but here it is > anyway. > Flash is one of the most-used mediums these days. From humorous > little > animations to full-fledged games, sites like Facebook have entire > gaming > systems all using Flash code. > > I am one of the volunteer triagers and I have been working on > Mozilla-related bugs for several months now. These bugs include > Firefox, > Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Epiphany, among other packages. > > The two main Flash plugins most people use are Adobe's Flash Plugin > and > SWFDEC. Our problems here are: Adobe's plug-in is binary only > (non-open-source), so when it breaks the using package (Firefox for > instance) there is no possibility of working on the break, since we > have > no possibility of insight into the code. SWFDEC, according to the > package manager/triager Thomas K., is no longer supported upstream. > Therefor it's inclusion into Fedora will end with Fedora 12. It > should > no longer be included in Fedora 13. > > There are other attempts at open-source Flash, but non are really > usable > at the moment. > > So, I'm sending this out really to ensure that everyone is informed > of > the issue, and to see if anyone has any suggestions for possible > plugin > inclusion in the next generations of Fedora. > > Chris I think guys in the 'devel' list would have more insight into this issue. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
