632588 - Update flash-check to handle Flash 10.2 being Intel-only

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Flash 10.2 went final today, and with it apparently comes the end of PPC support.

We'll need to update the flash-check script to not bug our PPC users to upgrade to a version they can't use :(  (Hopefully Adobe will continue to support security updates to Flash 10.1 for PPC just as they have continued to support Flash 9 security updates until now for the OSes 10.0 left behind.)

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Attachment: New version

I haven't tested this, but I'm pretty sure it's right.

I also commented out the extra warning, since it's not relevant at the moment.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Comment on attachment 511289 [details]
New version

The changes to the script look good; thanks!  In my limited testing on stage, everything behaves as expected: 10.2 on Intel gets no message; 10.1.102.64 on Intel gets the warning and link to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, on PPC gets no message; 9.0.289.0 on 1.6.x gets no message, on 2.x Intel gets warning and link to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, and on 2.x PPC gets warning and link to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/.

Good catch on the extra warning; I see we failed on bug 610146 comment 6 paragraph 2 ;)

See below about sucky experience for 10.4/10.5 PPC, but there's nothing we can do about that; hopefully they were mostly at 10.1.102.64 already :(

I'll deploy this sometime tomorrow.

(In reply to comment #0)
> (Hopefully Adobe will continue to support
> security updates to Flash 10.1 for PPC just as they have continued to support
> Flash 9 security updates until now for the OSes 10.0 left behind.)

Sadly, based on the ambiguity in the Flash 10.1 release notes and especially on the poor experience for 10.4/10.5 PPC on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (the OS selection is labeled "Macintosh OS X 10.4 - 10.6", but the version is "Flash Player 10.2 for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6 (Intel)") and the fact that older versions are now only available in 80+ MB archives, I'm guessing this is not going to happen.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is now live.  Thanks, Stuart!

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I updated http://caminobrowser.org/documentation/setup/#find_plugin with the new Flash and Shockwave versions and added a note at the top of flash-check.js to remind us to increment the values on the Setup page when we update the JS.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I updated the Flash 10.2 version today to 10.2.152.33.

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

And today to 10.2.153.1.