[arch-dev-public] dropping Gnash?

[Andreas Radke]

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