On 31/07/17 03:47 PM, Roman Bysh wrote:
There's a petition for Adobe to open source flash, add a star if you have a github account. https://github.com/pakastin/open-source-flash Regards Dave P
We are better off to let Flash die and move on.
In my DatabaseOfDotSigQuotes there is this: The proof that IBM didn't invent the car is that it has a steering wheel and an accelerator instead of spurs and ropes, to be compatible with a horse. -- Jac Goudsmit Sometimes it is important to let go of the past in order to make progress. My great fear with open sourcing code as clearly buggy (and probably complex, which is why it was maintenance nightmare and cascaded further bugs) as the Adobe flash player is that it will be used as a learning example in the wrong way. If it is held up as a "Don't Do this" example, that's one thing, but if its going to form the base of a FOSS project to preserver the 'product' then I think it will serve as both a bad example and will suck in effort that could be better used elsewhere. I recall back in the 1980s when I was asked to do a study on the impact of the code base change from the V7 Unix of Dennis and the original Gang to the 'professional' code base produced by USG. I was horrified. The simple, clear code I had grew up on, had learnt C from, was being replaced with bloated, highly entropic spaghetti code that was far from clear. The structure analysers I used to assess quality of code completely balked on the USG equivalents of V7 programs that they handled nicely. When Rob Pike spoke of things like "do one thing and do it well" he was addressing matters like "'Cat -n' Considered harmful' as a principle. But it runs deeper than that. Years later I compared Bill Joy's original VI code-base against an early version of VIM. Bill's code did not come out well. The VIM had been re-implemented against functionality rather than by being based upon and tweaking Bill's code. That's a good thing. Bill had coded with an enormous number of global variables (often used instead of parameter passing even though their scope was very localized) and very little planned structure. You could he how he'd hacked it together in an ad-hoc manner. The idea of the Adobe flash code base being used terrifies me. if we need Flash, which is an idea that I am in no way convinced of, I think it's a 'backward comparability' feature we need to let go of and strongly depreciated, then it should be a specification-driven clean-sheet implementation. Oh, wait ... hey is GNU Gnash still around? What about LightSpark? -- For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org