Re: Wishlist of apps to port?

This seems like a really cool project, but what I mean by "port modern 
software" is more of the ability to port software that was just written 
for macOS without much regard for compatibility with old versions. At 
this point, such software is quite rare as many people are migrating to 
Swift and SwiftUI. The main thing I want to avoid is people thinking 
that we are only able to port OpenStep apps, and getting back into the 
misconception that GNUstep is just an implementation of OpenStep.

On 9/26/25 10:05, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On 9/26/25 03:51, Ethan C wrote:
>>
>> [...] However, one thing I am concerned about is that this does not 
>> really show GNUstep's ability to port modern software, [...]
>>
> There is another project to propose, which even might offer being of 
> an exceptionally educative value:
>
> https://github.com/jeffreybergier/MathEdit
>
> It is a fairly recent project and the author went great lengths to 
> ensure his code his portable for following platforms:
>
> macOS 15.5
> macOS 10.15.7
> OS X 10.8.5
> Mac OS X 10.6.8
> Mac OS X 10.4.11
> Mac OS X 10.2.8
> OpenStep 4.2
>
> Because the sheer range of supported platforms beginning with OpenStep 
> 4.2 up until macOS 15.5 is maybe unprecedented it is tempting to think 
> porting this also to GNUstep might be of exception educational value
>
> I asked the author if he might be interested in porting it also to 
> GNUstep in order to make this also available for Linux, *BSD, and 
> Windows.
> Unfortunately he politely declined, most probably because he may not 
> be aware wether also learning GNUstep is worth it.
> But he was open to import related patches by third party developers 
> interested in contributing.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>