[haiku-development] Re: Some useful haiku projects

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
<anoop.kn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Project 1:
> I was recently using my Freebsd OS and found something very
> interesting, Adobe doesn't make plugins for BSD license (strange)
> machines at all. I am guessing haiku is going to run into the same
> problem sooner or later. A workaround to the problem although may be
> existent GNASH (GPL) and Swfdec (GPL),  both of them don't play movies
> that very well (atleast on freebsd with the current latest packages).
> These plugins (thanks to the brilliant effort of the authors who
> reverse engineer) work decent enough.
>
> Any plans to port these ? If you want any help I could do it. I just
> want some help on how to modify the configure files so that it
> compiles for Haiku. (Any docs available on this ?).

Michael Lotz has done some work on a completely native Flash player
which I think would be much better than porting the massive beast
Gnash.

In addition if someone still wants to port Gnash it needs to be done
properly, and that means writing some Haiku code to handle certain
things instead just trying to compile all the Linux dependencies and
producing a ridiculously huge monster application. That is just lazy
and it is not the Haiku-way.

> Project 2:
> Torrent client for Haiku. Using Librtorrent. (Very Important)

Porting rtorrent has been on my list for a while, and I plan to write
a download manager to go along with my browser project and that will
include an rtorrent-based plugin.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan

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