[RFC] Port for nspluginwrapper

[Eric Anderson]

On 03/30/07 21:01, Dave Grochowski wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I wrote a port for nspluginwrapper, which you can find at:
> 
> http://elvis.rowan.edu/~grocho98/nspluginwrapper.tar.bz2
> 
> For those who do not know what it is, you can find the homepage at:
> 
> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
> 
> Basically, it allows you to run Linux/i386 browser plugins on the native 
> browsers of other architectures and operating systems. To use it, simply 
> install the appropriate plugins you would like from ports (I tried it 
> with www/linux-flashplugin9, but others should work just as well) and 
> then install nspluginwrapper. As a regular user, run "nspluginwrapper -v 
> -a -i" to automagically find the plugins on you system and enable them 
> for use in Firefox. Now, the plugins should work in your browser. I 
> tried it with Flash 9 and both the graphics and sound worked. 
> Unfortunately, Flash 9 is a bit buggy for me and crashed frequently, but 
> I had the same issue when using the plugin with www/linux-firefox as well.
> 
> I think the port is pretty complete, but I have only tried it on 
> FreeBSD/i386 6-STABLE and FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT. It should work on 
> amd64, but I don't have a machine to test it on. If the port is 
> acceptable, I would not mind maintaining it, except for the fact that I 
> obviously do not have a commit bit (though that probably is not a huge 
> issue).
> 
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Installs ok, but didn't seem to find any plugins, even with the 
linux-flash9 installed.  If I try to point it at the flash plugin 
directly, it says something like: "not a valid nspluginwrapper plugin"


Eric