The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

[Scot Hetzel]

On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <picard at kti.ae.poznan.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I write this email to give my humble opinion on the scandalous status of the
> linux-flashplugin9. This port is in the port tree for now 8 monthes (first
> commit on the 17th of January 2007) and one should admit that it never
> worked. A
> numerous set of mails has already been sent on this mailing list about this
> port
> and, to my best knowledge, no one has figured out how to have Flash 9
> working on
> a FreeBSD machine using this port.
>
> I am not shocked by the lack of support for Flash9, even if Flash 8+ is
> nowadays
> more and more frequent. I understand the lack of time of the porters, issues
> related with various architectures and similar issues. Therefore, I give
> Jamie no
> grief about the lack of support for Flash 9. That is just not my point.
>
> The thing that shocked me is the fact that the port is still in the ports
> tree
> even if it does not work! (It compiles but each try to view a Flash
> animation
> leads to a segmentation fault of Firefox). If we want the FreeBSD community
> to
> be focused on quality (I assume we all want), then this port should be
> removed
> from the ports tree or at least marked as broken.
>
The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just
installs the linux flash9 binary.  What is broken is the linux
emulation on FreeBSD < 7. Work is underway to improve the linux
emulation in -CURRENT.

I agree the port should be marked broken for OSVERSION < 7000xx, and
compat.linux.osrelease = 2.4.2, as the flash9 plugin may require
2.6.16 linux emulation.

Scot
Scot