Work and creativity usually do more than miracles... Chen has released a 64-bit VFP compiler (http://www.baiyujia.com/vfpcompiler/), and many other 3rd party softwares dramatically extend VFP's scope compared to what it was 10 years ago.
Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud > Le 13 sept. 2016 à 04:57, Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> When I said "resurrecting Visual Foxpro", I was referring the one and >>> only Visual Foxpro owned by Micro$oft. :) >> >> The final step in grieving over death is to accept it and move on. >> Resurrection is the stuff of myths, not reality. > > That's why I am still wishing for a miracle! ;) > > If Micro$oft hadn't lost the source codes of Visual Foxpro, It should > always be easy and possible to resurrect it! > >> There was never a 100% conversion tool for moving from Fox 2.x to VFP, but >> people made that move anyway. Anyone who tried to do conversions quickly >> realized that the converted apps sucked, and were impossible to maintain. It >> was much smarter to realize that VFP was a new tool that did things >> differently, and that only by coding your app to match the tool would you >> ever get the results that VFP offered. >> .... >> Sure, we did, and after a couple of quick attempts, decided that it wasn’t >> worth it. We have a visual report writer, a visual class designer, and lots >> more. The thing is, we started this in 2004, and very few people made the >> move. So when I Paul and I took jobs that didn’t use Dabo (but paid the >> bills), it got put in a holding pattern. There hasn’t been much new >> development in Dabo for the last 5 years or so. >> >> Unlike VFP, though, the source code is 100% freely available at >> https://github.com/dabodev. And I mean free in both senses: no cost, and you >> are free to modify it to your heart’s content. You could even write a VFP >> conversion tool! > > If Dabo could break the ice.... a 100% converter.... meow! Maybe this > dream needs another miracle.... > > -- > .~. 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! > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
