The term porting is one that is feared by software developers, loved by management, and possibly thrown left and right by consumers. Software porting is when software written for one environment, which can be a particular hardware configuration, OS, API, etc., is written for another environment. The reality sets in when every environment is typically different from one another. It's like trying to make San Francisco Sourdough Bread when you're in another part of the world. Scenarios that make porting much more harder include: