ports/50965 - www/linux-flashplugin update to 6.0r79

[Brandon D. Valentine]

The following reply was made to PR ports/50965; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <ports at geekpunk.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, rodrigc at attbi.com,
	nork at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/50965 - www/linux-flashplugin update to 6.0r79
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:24:38 -0500

 [ I am the linux-flashplugin6 maintainer. ]
 
 On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:45:59PM -0400, Andrew J Caines wrote:
 > Craig,
 > 
 > It's not obvious from your PR[1] updating www/linux-flashplugin from
 > 5.0r51 to 6.0r79 if you're accounting for the existing port of the Linux
 > Flash player 6.0r79 - www/linux-flashplugin6.
 > 
 > Have you tested 6.0r79 with www/flashpluginwrapper (which depends on
 > www/linux-flashplugin)? Some time back I gave it a quick try and found
 > problems, but I didn't investigate far.
 
 Thank you for bringing this PR to my attention, Andrew.
 
 This is a *bad* idea.
 
 As Andrew indicated, linux-flashplugin6 does *not* work with the
 flashpluginwrapper currently in the ports tree.  I have yet to see
 Nork's replacement for flashpluginwrapper -- linuxpluginwrapper[0] --
 hit the tree.  When it does this should serve as a solution for those of
 us looking to use the linux-flashplugin6 port with a native FreeBSD
 Mozilla binary.  In the meantime the linux-flashplugin's continued
 maintenance as a Flash5 port is critical to flash support in native
 FreeBSD browsers.
 
 Nork, any news on when we might see linuxpluginwrapper committed?
 
 Also, the Flash6 plugins from Macromedia are only provided for Linux as
 Mozilla plugins, and are incompatible with Netscape 4.7x or any browser
 which depends on an NS4.7x compatible plugin API.  For this reason the
 linux-flashplugin port should continue to track the Flash5 plugin
 series.
 
 [0] - http://tmp.ninth-nine.com/LinuxPluginWrapper/
 
 HTH,
 
 Brandon D. Valentine
 -- 
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