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Flash Port Bounty
Written by Karl vom Dorff   
Wednesday, 02 April 2008



Description


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Status: Open
Target: N/A
Developer: Unassigned
Deadline: March, 2009

Adobe's Flash implementation is everywhere in the internet these days. Once considered a nuisance to many (probably still) for consuming too much bandwidth or making advertisments intruisive, now Flash has almost become necessary as it makes its way into audio, video and game content on websites.

Being commercial and closed source propietary software, Adobe will likely only support platforms with a strong userbase (i.e Linux, Mac and Windows), leaving smaller niche operating systems (i.e Haiku) to fend for themselves.

Thankfully, there are two open source initiatives that are trying to support Flash content - Gnash and swfdec.

This bounty would entail the developer to port either of these to Haiku.

Technical Information


Adobe recently released specifications for SWF. This may help increase the development speed and or quality of Gnash or swfdec.

Haiku developer Michael Lotz ported an earlier version of Gnash with some great success, however discontinued his efforts for various reasons . He is willing to donate the code to any developer wishing to continue porting Gnash...

Relevant information

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Some links to relevant info:

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swfdec




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karl said:

Wow you guys are quick smilies/wink.gif Thanks for the donations so far. This could be an interesting one smilies/grin.gif
 
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June 06, 2008
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MaxOS said:

Interesting opinions:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2008-06/msg00075.html
 
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June 11, 2008
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thenerd said:

interesting comments indeed. What exactly is boost if I may ask?
 
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anders said:

I'm not a developer, but I wouldn't be surprised if Boost isn't likely pre-Haiku 2, considering its scope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_C++_Libraries

I don't think the Haiku team wants to extend the Haiku libs this way. But again, these are only my non-developer guesses.
 
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anders said:

Also don't miss this thread: http://www.haikuware.com/forum...upport#321
 
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mmu_man said:

I'm not sure if that's so useful.
If it's meant to help the existing Gnash porter (yes there is a working BeOS port, but it is not stable yet) then fine, but there is no need for someone else to pick it up and dump what has already been done on it.
He had to write code to emulate Boost because this huge thing doesn't support gcc2 anymore.

As for swfdec, I've looked into it, and it has far too many dependancies (including some requiring gcc4), and even more last time I checked than previously.
 
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June 16, 2008
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anders said:

mmu_man: It's meant to help anybody who wants to give us a working flash implementation on Haiku, whether it's based on the existing Gnash port, a new Gnash port or swfdec.

Regarding the existing Gnash port, it seems like the porter himself isn't too optimistic about it (but it mayb be that I've missed something): http://www.haikuware.com/forum...upport#288
 
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thenerd said:

I must agree with Anders on this. According to the thread he linked to it doesn't look very optimistic so maybe this will help that. There's nothing stopping the current flash porter to apply for the bounty.
 
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MaxOS said:

I agree with Anders too.
mmu_man: but perhaps gcc4 after last changes in Haiku is standard... maybe... or not?
 
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