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. Best regards, Willy Picard -- Willy Picard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Information Technology www: http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ The Poznan University of Economics tel: +48 61 848 05 49 Mansfelda 4, 60-854 Poznan, Poland fax: +48 61 848 38 40 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
