Re: [Gnash-dev] one day AVM2? who knows

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:10:28PM -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:

>   I'm not sure LightSpark would be worth the effort. For one thing, it
>   uses LLVM and OpenGL only, which won't work on an embedded platform.

Well, I suspect changing it to use Gnash's rendering infrastructure
shouldn't be too involved?...

LLVM however sounds problematic indeed -- it's at the core of the VM (I
assume), and thus pretty much impossible to get rid of.

> An supported a forked version of a project that is under heavy
> development can be a maintainance nightmare.

Good point.

> Tamarin has some AS3 classes, but not all.

Ah, didn't know that. So indeed it seems a rather promising candidate
:-)

>   I find it funny that the only Gnash task that has funding already
>   nobody wants to do... (at least to get it started)

Well, it's a pretty involved task, that requires a substantial initial
investment before producing anything useful... A combination of skill,
time, and motivation is needed, which unfortunately isn't exactly common
-- there are just too many interesting project competing for the few
people who fulfill all three conditions...

-antrik-