From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:11:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Pynt. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/21be625c3409a4769003f49df156f2ca4636f47e?ds=inline Pynt. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2014-04-29-gnash-coverity.txt b/blog/data/2014-04-29-gnash-coverity.txt index 20c055ca02..7c429c8752 100644 --- a/blog/data/2014-04-29-gnash-coverity.txt +++ b/blog/data/2014-04-29-gnash-coverity.txt @@ -7,15 +7,19 @@ project for quite a while now. It is a free software implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser plugin. Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the newer AVM2 format - see -lightspark for that one), +Lightspark for that one), allowing several flash based sites to work. Thanks to the friendly developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2 -support, but it has not happened yet.

+support, but it has not happened yet. If you install both Lightspark +and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file, +so you can get both handled as free software. Unfortunately, +Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many +sites do not work yet.

A few months ago, I started looking at -Coverity, the static source +Coverity, the static source checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of @@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ the previous one. Most of the reported issues were and are in the test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.

If you want to help out, you find us on -the +the gnash-dev mailing list and on -the #gnash channel on irc.freenode.net IRC server.