GNU Gnash released [LWN.net]

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 15:40 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
Parent article: GNU Gnash released

Hmmm. This seems a bit premature. The web site listed still says that the project is only of interest to developers, and that when something is released, it'll be available in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnash/ -- which as of this posting still doesn't exist.

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GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 16:37 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link] (3 responses)

Right. It crashes on everything I've tried to feed it. Not to mention there is a bug in the makefile.

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 17:21 UTC (Tue) by thomask (guest, #17985) [Link] (2 responses)

But then the proprietary flash player on Firefox crashed on a lot of stuff - so much so that I was forced to uninstall it because it made browsing a very painful experience.

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 17:28 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm running a clean amd64 environment - no proprietary flash player at all, no crashes. Lucky me ;-) In fact, I use swfdec - which, although doesn't render all flash animations and sometimes saturates the CPU usage, so far has never crashed firefox.

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 11, 2006 10:15 UTC (Wed) by mjr (guest, #6979) [Link]

Incidentally, I tried to compile Gnash (the latest snapshot some time after the announcement) for amd64, and it failed due to trying to cast a pointer to integer.

Ah well, it's not as if it's a release. I'm sure it'll get fixed.

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 18:46 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link] (2 responses)

Of interest only to developers, perhaps. I'd actually think many users
will do a little dance when they find out there is promising development in the flashplayer area. I know I did.

But if they don't make an announcement, how will developers know about it?

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 18:56 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

On rereading, the problem is with the LWN headline, not the press release. The title shouldn't be "GNU Gnash released", because it hasn't been. It should be something like "GNU Gnash -- it's, like, a thing, almost!" :)

GNU Gnash released

Posted Jan 10, 2006 19:13 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Agreed: Jon, I suggest that you fix the headline. The FSF did not use the word "released", and it is clear from the announcement text that it's really a call for developer assistance. What is being announced is a project, not a product.