[osflash] Flash Player 8 on Linux

[John Dowdell]

John Giotta wrote:
> Has anyone heard anything about a Player 8 for Linux release date?

I haven't seen any hard info yet. (Right now there are a whole bunch of 
questions about the future piled up behind the final governmental 
approvals of the mergers, and I suspect things like Linux are tied in 
with the bunch.)

As Tim noted, as the Player adds more features, it becomes more 
difficult to support them on operating systems with fewer media 
architectures:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/08/porting-flash-player-to-alternative.html

I also know that the 8.5 Player throws a monkeywrench into any 8.0 
porting -- I haven't heard any official word on this, but it seems 
trickier to do two separate ports in succession, where one port would 
have a life of only a few months.

So... I'm sorry, I don't have any solid info here yet. I'm hoping we get 
some soon. The above are some of the ingredients that go into the 
decisionmaking, but I'm still not sure which way things would play out. 
The overall goal is to make people happy, if that general orientation is 
useful.

jd








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