Andrew Savchenko schrieb:
# Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> (29 Aug 2015)
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive.
# (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140)
www-plugins/gnash
Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free
software. And there still many sites which require flash to work.
The following other free flash implementations exist:
* LightSpark: active development, ASv2 only
* swfdec: development stopped in 2009
* Shumway: abandoned by Mozilla in 2016, very low development activity still
happens in github[0]
I think your best bet to replace gnash would be Shumway. Though it is not
possible to use on current Firefox[1].
So maybe mask it, but not remove?
Current gnash snapshot in the tree can only build against a specific set of
dependencies, which may disappear any time now (newer versions are stable).
I tried to build upstream git head, but it fails. This was reported a year
ago, no reaction from upstream:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51484
If it is impossible to build, then I think having it in the tree has no value.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
[0] https://github.com/ExE-Boss/mozilla-shumway
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443253
