On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Edward Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Dabo is NOT resurrecting Visual Foxpro. It's building something similar to replace it. Dabo is competing with Visual C#, Visual Basic.Net and alike. Then Dabo must prove itself to be a real VFP replacement in *ALL* aspects. When I said "resurrecting Visual Foxpro", I was referring the one and only Visual Foxpro owned by Micro$oft. :) > 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. If Dabo offered a tool to convert Visual Foxpro projects.... there was never a 100% conversion tool that really does it. BTW, have your team ever considered to write a conversion tool that translates *ALL* VFP codes into Python, including its Report Writer? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.39.3) /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with you! _______________________________________________ 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/CAGv=MJDaz-bQkFdKVd0pZn1aCpjy1V=+zfep1w7yndsg6jf...@mail.gmail.com ** 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.
