On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 07:43:11 pm Simon Cropper wrote: > Hi All, > > First I would like to introduce myself. I am an ecologist that is a > long-term user of Visual Foxpro. I have written many many applications > using VFP for both clients and myself. Usually to manipulate and summarize > large biological datasets. > > In recent times I have migrated from Windows to Ubuntu and replaced nearly > all my applications I use in my business except those dependant on VFP. I > run these applications and use VFP in interactive mode on a Virtual > Machine. > > A programmer at heart I am now looking for a replacement to VFP that will > operate in UNIX, Windows and Mac environments. After many months I decided > Python was the package that (a) was the most familiar to me, (2) was the > most OS agnostic, and (3) appeared to provide similar functionality, at > least in the programming aspects, to VFP. > > After reading Paul McNett's articles on VFP on Linux over the last year I > actually emailed him yesterday to ask if he had moved on with his quest. He > was the one that suggested I look at Dabo and subscribe to this list. As it > was, after I sent him that email I stumbled onto Dabo and quickly realised > that this package was in part a solution to the various questions I had > posed to Paul. For the record I have searched for many months for a system > like Dabo and never once had it provide a hit on Google or appear in any > Python pages -- this package is certainly a well kept secret. > > As I said, Paul pointed me here and asked me to reiterate my request for > information. I look forward to see what your responses are. > > Bye-and-bye: How big is the Dabo Community? > > **** ORIGINAL EMAIL **** >
Welcome to the wonderful world of Dabo. I think you have found a home. Several on the list are former VFPers (myself included). The access of data is done via modules (sort of like ODBC, and special drivers on windows) in python language. For example to access Postgres the psycopg2 module is the one Dabo uses (also the most popular). And to access DBF files there several such modules. There is even one that prepares dbf data for import into Postgres. http://pgdbf.sourceforge.net/ That should help you to move your dbf's to postgres (assuming you want to use postgres). If your programs are single user then you might want to consider SQLite. It has the advantage of being built-in to python. And I guess one can think of it like dbf's in the sense that it's always available in python. Just be aware that Dabo supports SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, and Firebird (there is also some support for MsSQL). Also make sure you check the screencasts on the Dabo site - www.dabodev.com Johnf _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
