True, but change is painful or at least it seems like it would be painful.
I, like some others on this list started with Fox back in the 1980's and
like some others on this list, I hope god will deliver a miracle and
save us. I haven't prayed yet. Maybe that would help?
Note that VFP9 SP2 works great with Win10, even with only 2gb memory -
even better than on Win7,8,8.1.
On 9/10/2016 8:46 AM, Edward Leafe wrote:
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
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