Re: Mozilla plugins
On Don, 2002-10-10 at 02:45, Petro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:36:02PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > Just want to point the obvious: They have a powerpc plugin that works
> > perfectly under MacOS-X. So basically that's nearly a zero-effort for them
> > to provide the community a linux/powerpc binary.
>
> Actually, it's even worse than that.
>
> I'm doubting there is much hardware specific crap in it, and they
> support Linux-x86, so it IS a near-zero-effort (hell, all they'd
> have to do is ask, and I'm sure someone would be willing to compile
> it for them).
A simple compile doesn't deal with portability issues like endianness,
char (un)signedness, ... Granted, they should have solved at least the
first one for MacOS.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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