On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:17:32PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:29 AM Kenneth Parker <sea7k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought I'd check > > up on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some Standalone .swf files > > (games, etc). > > > > Two came up in my searches, Lightspark (which seems to be, mainly a > > Plug-in), and Ghu Gnash, which I like better, since it works as a > > Standalone Program. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem available in Bullseye > > (and Search didn't find it for Buster either). It DOES show up in Stretch, > > but that's on a different machine than where my .swf files are. > > > > Update: I just installed Stretch in QEMU-KVM in my "Knockabout" Mint 20 > system and was able to install Gnash on it. I did a bit of research into > Gnu Gnash, seeing that it may not be currently maintained. I wonder if > that decision was made before Flash was going Extinct? > > I don't consider this closed, because of the large number of Standalone > .swf files. But I have something to test and, may contact gnu.org about > Gnash. >
I just find the last commit of Gnash (almost two years ago)[1], It did say "Gnash is currently not being actively maintained". For an alternative to Adobe Flash, Ruffle[2] is indeed worth watching, but they seem to have been in the proof-of-concept stage for a long time. [1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnash.git/commit/?id=583ccbc1275c7701dc4843ec12142ff86bb305b4 [2]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle -- OpenPGP fingerprint: 3C47 5977 4819 267E DD64 C7E4 6332 5675 A739 C74E
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