Wishlist Development

Package Wishlists: Base - Development - Drivers - Emulation - Eyecandy - Games - Mobile Computing - Multimedia - Network - Productivity - Science - Various - Packages that were already there

A

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
ACE	The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment is a freely available, open-source object-oriented (OO) framework that implements many core patterns for concurrent communication software.	GPL compliant?	Developers
ALD	Assembly Language Debugger		Tiago Gasiba	tool for debugging executable programs at the assembly level Hmm, I can use gdb with "si" "disp /i $eip" just fine for single stepping in assembler mode. is there anything special in ALD which gdb is not able to do? -Msmeissn

B

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
bugzilla.org	Popular software issue tracking system written in Perl. Ran transparently as CGI script on top of a MySQL databse (typically).	GPL, FDL	Developers	Formerly Bugziila entry #47658 This is a massive web application, which you usually need to customize heavily. So a distribution inclusion is difficult at best. -Msmeissn
Bazaar	Bazaar	GPL v2	Developpers	Bazaar is a distributed version control system, an implementation of the Gnu Arch Protocol.
BIEW	Binary vIEW project	GPL v2		multiplatform portable viewer of binary files with built-in editor in binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes.
bvi	Nice Hexeditor for vi users	GPL v2		SUSE LINUX lacks hex editors! This one works very well, if you know vi/vim.

C

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
cflow	GNU cflow is able to produce both direct and inverted flowgraphs for C sources.	GPL	Developers
Code::Blocks	Open source, cross platform Free C/C++/D/etc... IDE	GPL v2	Tiago Gasiba
Comedilib	Comedilib is a library that provides an interface to Comedi devices	GPL v2	Spoonny	See also the drivers whishlist

D

Crystal Space	Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++.	LGPL	Game Developers	supports: true six degrees of freedom, colored lighting, lightmapped and stencil based lighting, shader support (CG, vertex programs, fragment programs, ...), mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflective surfaces, 3D sprites (frame based or with skeletal animation using cal3d animation library), procedural textures, particle systems, halos, volumetric fog, scripting (using Python, Perl, Java, or potentially other languages), 16-bit and 32-bit display support, OpenGL, and software renderer, font support (also with freetype), hierarchical transformations, physics plugin based on ODE, ...

E

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Eiffel	Probably conceptually the most thought-through object-oriented language around. The language in its current version has an ECMA standard (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-367.htm). There are several products to consider. There are closed-source evaluation versions from ISE (www.eiffel.com). GPL versions like Smart Eiffel (http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/), and VisualEifel (http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualeiffel/).	various	OO Developers
eclipse-cdt	CDT C++ development tools	EPL	Vince Negri	eclipse-cdt was provided on the 9.3 DVD but seems to have been removed. It was very useful to be able to used one IDE for both Java and C++ development.
Eclipse 64-bit	The Eclipse Platform and Java IDE for x86_64 architecture	EPL	Linuxerianer	The work around here Java/eclipse is for 32-bit only

F

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
findsym	find symbols in libraries	GPL	Tiago Gasiba	Simple script to find symbols in the available libraries. Sometimes it's very usefull!
FPK Pascal	Free Pascal Compiler	GPL	Developers	Free Pascal is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler
FreeTDS	open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol	LGPL	Higoe Alves	library that allow a program to communicate with Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases

G

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Gazpacho	GUI Designer	GPL	Developer	A new GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit designed to be ultra easy to use.
gcc-ada-devel	Ada compiler support files	GMGPL	The GNU Ada project	Release of additional development files for the GNU Ada comiler compiler. These files are needed for development of libraries and tools which are closely coupled with the compiler. Namely ASIS, GLADE and the GPS.
gdc	D programming language	GPL	Tiago Gasiba	D is a general purpose systems and applications programming language. It is a higher level language than C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with the operating system API's and with hardware. D is well suited to writing medium to large scale million line programs with teams of developers. D is easy to learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology.
Geany	A fast and lightweight IDE	GPL	Devoloper	Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
GPS	GNAT Programming Studio	GPL	Developers	IDE with integrated GDB (The GNU Project Debugger) / GVD (GNU Visual Debugger) support for Ada, C and C++ development.
GreenCard	Haskell FFI Preprocessor	BSD	Haskell developers	GreenCard is a foreign function interface preprocessor for Haskell, simplifying the task of interfacing Haskell programs to external libraries (which are normally exposed via C interfaces).

I

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Internet Communication Engine (ICE)	Ice is a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. It is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications. It features an object-oriented specification language, easy to use C++, Java, Python, PHP, C#, and Visual Basic mappings, a highly efficient protocol, asynchronous method invocation and dispatch, dynamic transport plug-ins, TCP/IP and UDP/IP support, SSL-based security, a firewall solution, and much more.	GPL	Developers	ZeroC Inc. already provides the full source in RPM packages plus a complete SRPM. The ICEE (ICE for Embedded devices) extension is also available.

J

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
jpackage.org	1) To provide a coherent set of Java™ software packages for Linux, satisfying all quality requirements of other applications. 2) To establish an efficient and robust policy for Java™ software installation.	JPackage License	Java™ Developers	SUSE uses Jpackages since some time already. What exactly is missing?--A jaeger 14:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC) JPackage installs directly from the jpackage.org website often do not work. Such as updates to jpackage-utils from the jpackage.org website. Granted there are problems with jpackage.org (e.g. broken packages, unfixed bugs, poor/none SUSE support). Therefore, I would like to see fixes for the jpackage packages, i.e. font support in the core jdk's. Especially since jpackage.org is very redhat centric. Personally I would like to see the equivelant (but better) support for Java in SUSE possibly using jpackage.org as a foundation for something much better. This is from the README.SUSE for jpackage-utils and it still applies: For now it is not possible to install packages from the JPackage web site on a SUSE 9.2 with all the java packages installed. RPM will report missing dependencies due to the missing Epoch tag in the packages provided by SUSE. (In fact, this is only an RPM issue, the packages should work together well as we changed as little as possible.) Our tools do not use the epoch tags, and it was considered safer to leave epochs out completely even if it breaks compatibility with packages from the JPackage web site in the short term. We are working on a better solution for 9.3, but we also believe that the intermediate solution is the best compromise to ensure a smooth transition to the JPackage standard. Benstein 20:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
NetBeans	NetBeans is one of the two leading OpenSource Java IDEs (the other being Eclipse, which SUSE includes). To avoid the appearance of endorsing one over the other, NetBeans should be included as well.	Sun Public License	Java Developers	NetBeans 5.0 is part of the 10.1 ftp tree now--A jaeger 14:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC) ( formerly Bugzilla #63414)

K

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Kicad	Creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork	GPL	Developers, Engineers	multi-platform PCB and EDA tool with 3D viewer

L

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Lazarus	An IDE for Free Pascal and an alternative for Kylix	GPL	Pascal Programmers	The SPEC of the SRC.RPM now needs to be altered for SuSE.
Loki Library	A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.	MIT License	Developers	An initial rpm spec file has been proposed in the loki-lib-general forum.

M

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Moscow ML	Light-weight implementation of Standard ML	GPL 2	Many, many Computer Science students in Northern Europe where it is used widely in many cources (funtional programming, compiler writing, logics etc.)
MinGW / XMinGW	GNU development platform for Windows	Various Open Source	People Who Develop for Windows but Want to Use Linux

O

OpenMPI

Message Passing Library

BSD-like

An alternative to MPICH based on FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI. Support MPI version 2. (MPICH supports version 1; MPICH2 is being developed.)

P

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
php-mssql	PHP module that improve support for Microsoft SQL Server Databases	PHP License	Higor Alves	Module that allows php applications connect in Microsoft SQL Server databases (it require FreeTDS)
phpPgAdmin	phpPgAdmin is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL.		Aliks-os
paco	PACacke Organizer, makes a log of a "make install" or other install process (cp, mv, ...)	GPL	Maddin	For those which want to have a overview over manually installed software and a easy way to uninstall the manually installed software. Ability to create binary packages and to install Debian, RPM or Slackware packages! http://paco.sourceforge.net/

R

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
RHIDE	Text Mode IDE	?		IDE for DJGPP and other GNU based systems. With RHIDE you can develop and debug your applications written in C, C++, Pascal and other languages for which you have a compiler which can be called from RHIDE. It might require libraries from SetEdit and Turbo Vision

S

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
Seasar	Seasar is an open source lightweight Dependency-Injection container using AOP. Seasar employs Convention over Configuration concept for Less Configuration.	Apache License, Version 2.0	Java™ Developers
shlibs5	LibC-5 based libraries needed to compile elder software	GPL	Developers, Users	has always been part of SuSE distributions
slsnif	slsnif is a powerful serial port sniffer	GPL	Developers	There is no serial port sniffing tool for SuSE at the moment and slsnif is a good solution.

T

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
TORQUE Resource Manager	Batch/Queuing system	OpenPBS license	Scientists, cluster admins	Better than the old, unsupported DQS, which was once part of S.u.S.E. Linux
Trac	Trac is an integrated system for managing software projects. It contains an enhanced wiki, issue tracking system and interface to the Subversion.	modified BSD License	Software project developers
txt2regex	nice tool to build regex	GPL	skript writers :o)
SystemTap	tracing and performance tuning tool	GPL	admins, developers	This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence that may be otherwise required to collect data.

V

Package	Description	License	wanted by	remark
WDG Offline HTMLHelp.com Validator	Offline HTML validator	Artistic	Web page authors	Excellent for scripting html validation

Package Wishlists: Base - Development - Drivers - Emulation - Eyecandy - Games - Mobile Computing - Multimedia - Network - Productivity - Science - Various - Packages that were already there