Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

["Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>]

Andrew Savchenko schrieb:
>> # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> (29 Aug 2015)
>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive.
>> # (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140)
>> www-plugins/gnash
>   
> Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free
> software. And there still many sites which require flash to work.

The following other free flash implementations exist:

* LightSpark: active development, ASv2 only
* swfdec: development stopped in 2009
* Shumway: abandoned by Mozilla in 2016, very low development activity still 
happens in github[0]

I think your best bet to replace gnash would be Shumway. Though it is not 
possible to use on current Firefox[1].

> So maybe mask it, but not remove?

Current gnash snapshot in the tree can only build against a specific set of 
dependencies, which may disappear any time now (newer versions are stable).

I tried to build upstream git head, but it fails. This was reported a year 
ago, no reaction from upstream:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51484

If it is impossible to build, then I think having it in the tree has no value.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn


[0] https://github.com/ExE-Boss/mozilla-shumway
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443253