[Mageia-dev] Adobe Flash player 11 Beta 1 in Cauldron

[Ahmad Samir]

On 16 July 2011 02:57, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 15 juillet 2011 à 11:10 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> Hello.
>>
>> As you've seen the thread, posted by Charles A Edwards, there's a new
>> version of flash which has native 64bit support, it's still in beta
>> but seems to work well, some questions:
>> - Any objections about offering it in mga1?
>
> Yes, I do.
> That's a beta, and stable is not a dumping ground for that.
>

Right, let's do a head count:
Mageia 64bit users who are using the 64bit Adobe Flash 11 Beta 1,
please raise your hand (my hand is raised already, I've been using it
for 2-3 days).

The point, if there's no other easy way to watch flash for 64bit users
without jumping through hoops (using nspluginwrapper, which is
occasionally problematic, or using a 32bit browser on an x86_64
system, which entails installing some more 32bit libs), there's a good
chance they'll use flash 11, alpha/beta/rc is still better than the
hoops.

Also we're talking about pushing it to backports, not updates.

Anyway, since I am personally not affected by the whole issue, I am
not pushing to submit to mga1, do a poll or whatever, when a consensus
is reached we can act accordingly.

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> Michael Scherer
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Ahmad Samir