[arch-dev-public] dropping Gnash?

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Am Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:06:15 -0400
>> schrieb Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Am Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:19:57 -0500
>>> > schrieb Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> If they don't update often and if no other dev/TU is willing to
>>> >> adopt it, I could just update it for this time being.  Lately,
>>> >> I've been busy updating orphaned packages so a couple more won't
>>> >> matter ;).  In fact, I was about to post a status report on the
>>> >> remaining ones.  I will do that sometime soon.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > gnash-common and -gtk have been added to AUR. please decide to
>>> > update the official packages/remove AUR ones or leave them up to
>>> > the community.
>>> >
>>> > your choice.
>>> >
>>> > -Andy
>>> >
>>>
>>> I've started to work on an gnash upgrade. But  keep the gnash PKGBUILD
>>> in unsupported until the update is actually done. (ie I might change
>>> my mind).
>>>
>>> BTW, I'll probably use agg for the renderer instead of opengl for
>>> performance reason: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13443.  This was
>>> done in the PKGBUILD in AUR. I might also change the media from
>>> gstreamer to ffmpeg.  I've read somewhere that ffmpeg was better on
>>> Youtube. Currently, gnash 0.8.4 or 0.8.5 doesn't work on Youtube as
>>> far as I could tell.
>>>
>>
>> Please take care of the AGG license. I remember we dropped its usage
>> in OOo and switched back to an older agg version shipped with the OOo
>> sources.
>>
>> see http://www.antigrain.com/license/index.html
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>
> AGG 2.5 is licensed under the GPL (same for gnash) so that shouldn't
> be a problem.
>
> Eric
>

FYI, I've just put gnash 0.8.5 in extra. It now use agg and ffmpeg.