Brecht Machiels wrote back in August to let us know about a new site he’s started called “BePorts.” From Brecht’s EMail:

BePorts aims to become a centralized collection of software ported to the BeOS platform. A ‘BePort’ basically consists of the BeOS-specific patches to the original source code. Along with a Subversion repository to store all patches, a Trac site eases cooperation on porting efforts. A wiki stores detailed information about each port. There is also a mailing list.

Since launching, an interesting application called “BePorter” has been released on the site. It’s a python script designed to help simplify the process of compiling ported applications on BeOS – which it does by automatically applying BeOS-specific patches and building the application. While many common UNIX command-line tools will compile “out-of-the-box” on BeOS, it does often require a bit of fiddling with ./configure options and changes to makefiles. This looks like a great way to make the process largely-painless.

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