On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> If you just gave me three choices, I'd have to go for the last one: confused.
Understood. The main thing that confuses people coming from the
"everything including the kitchen sink" world of VFP when they enter the Linux
world is that rather than create huge monolithic apps, developers create small
components that are then used with other small components to create the final
product. With VFP, or VB, or any Microsoft developer app, your choices are made
for you ahead of time.
That's one of the goals we set out to achieve with Dabo: figuring out
what were the best components for the types of apps we used to create when we
used VFP. We chose wxPython for the UI, ReportLab for the reporting tools,
SQLite for the in-memory SQL manipulation, etc. Someone coming from the
Microsoft world could just install Dabo and its dependencies, and be up and
running in much less time than if you had to research all those choices and
make a decision as to which ones to use.
-- Ed Leafe
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