Software port suggestions

Software Ports
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Would it be possible to have a “software port suggestions” zone on this forum for everyone to suggest open source software for porting with attached source code link? Others can then like and discuss the feasibility of porting this software to Haiku, or even start trying to port it by themselves.

There are always people who are only capable of some languages while they can’t find corresponding unported software for porting (or they can only finish porting some components of the software), while some others have suggestions but they are unable to port it by themselves.

Sorry for asking this if its existing or suggested by someone else already.

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It’s not a bad idea, maybe open a topic like “WishList third-party”? Could very well be that someone already did a port for some app out there but never published it. +1

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That would be interesting. It might get crowded quickly, so perhaps it should be restarted annually like the “New/updated in HaikuDepot” thread.

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+1
and Hello from me to all and thanks to all involved for this nice
operating system.
Im a lot interested in multimedia editing/live manipulation software.
And here are some links to the software sourcecode of some…

https://github.com/jaromil/FreeJ
https://github.com/salsaman/LiVES
Some suggestions for now.
Later more .The Forum let me post only two for now.
Finally signed in after years of reading :>)

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For FreeJ the official site points to here for the code: GitHub - dyne/FreeJ: Free Vision Mixer
According to the info there we have all build tools (automake), base dependencies (sdl,png,s-lang) and probably most of the optional ones (ogg libraries). It seems like an easy port, I wouldn’t be surprised if it compiled straight away.

LiVES looks like the complete opposite unfortunately.