[Potlatch-dev] Upgrade to fp10 + flex4

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/30/11 01:39, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>> Does this work with gnash?  I have gnash 0.8.9 installed, and I've been
>> able to use potlatch1 but not potlatch2.
>
> As far as I understand, your ability to use gnash is unaffected by this
> change, i.e. you will still be able to use Potlatch 1, and you will still
> not be able to use Potlatch 2.

That's correct. gnash only supports old flash applications written in
ActionScript 2 (e.g. potlatch1). They don't seem to have made much
progress at supporting AS3, since it needs a whole new AVM (AVM2) to
run.

Greg, you want to look at the lightspark project,
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark . It's direct goal is AS3
support, it's under heavy development and is much more likely to
support potlatch2 than gnash ever will. They've implemented a fair
amount of the AS3 language but it's not yet enough to run potlatch2.
We have a tracking bug for this with them at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightspark/+bug/629972 . I'd be interested
to see if anyone has any insights as to how close they are to
supporting enough language features for p2 to run, and doubly
interested in anyone who wants to help them with their coding to
achieve that goal.

Cheers,
Andy