On Sep 10, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Resurrect Visual Foxpro, please! Make it 64-bit at least! :) Well, Paul McNett and I *tried* to do that when we created Dabo, which does pretty much everything that VFP does, but with an open license and a future path forward. It did require learning Python instead of Xbase, but other than that, it had data binding, support for multiple backends (even a DBF backend, if someone had maintained it). It's been production-ready for over a decade. Very few people were willing to make the effort to move to Dabo. Sure, you couldn't directly port a VFP app to Dabo, but new development work doesn't have that problem. It really seems that people are much more willing to invest in a product with no future from its owner than to invest in a product with a future. It's like people who lived on the coast who have been flooded as sea levels rose: instead of moving to higher ground, they keep propping themselves above the waterline and praying for a miracle. -- Ed Leafe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/pgp-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
