Hey there Kevin - you of the BucketHead Fandom!
Your discourse on a re-write strikes a Nerve more than you can
imagine!!! Why? Well, to answer that I MUST start a New Thread! And, its
overdue for me to do it. But, alas - been WAY Overwhelmed here. Been
working 2 different PT gigs(Parrots & Teaching - but, NOT teaching
Parrots), and now doing a big move of crap out of this "storage" room at
my sister's house. On top of that, I MUST Prepare for this UCLA 2nd
interview - thus the re-write commentary. Of course, I do NOT want to
hijack this thread. So, I will start a new one. Hopefully either
tomorrow or Sat. - for which I need to crack open a Serious discussions
about Re-writes, alternate tech., reasons for picking certain tech. -
all in order to formulate a VERY specific response to UCLA. Although,
must admit - its a Bitch to go THIS Far (including a "written"
programming test I must complete) - all for a job that pays a bit TOO
low! Ugh...
-K-
On 3/14/2019 10:00 AM, Kevin J Cully wrote:
I think this is key. You all know that I'm a huge Xojo fan, however I can't ever believe
that rewriting an application for something other than a real concrete reason is a good
idea. Basically if you are wondering if you should rewrite a VFP application, then the
answer is "no" already. If you know you need to rewrite a VFP application,
then you already know why it needs to be rewritten, by definition. (Examples: Needs
cross platform. Needs 64-bit. Can't interface with 'X'. etc.)
Great post Thierry.
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Subject: Re: [NF] Looking for current summary of VFP clones
Hi Fletscher,
Does your client really knows that, since 10 is the last version of Windows,
VFP will work as long as Windows 10 will work, and re-write and/or migration
will bring nothing but cost and risk without a single benefit (except for those
who rewrite): learning, moving data to SQL if not already, rewriting, testing,
retraining users, managing the transition with part of the app in VFP and part
in the new system (no new app ever work overnight), etc., maybe loss of
functionalities, and risk that the transition works out badly…
Seeking alternatives to FoxPro was valid until Microsoft announced that Windows
10 was the last version (in may 2015, almost 4 years ago), today it's just
seeking cost and risk for no other benefit than 'doing someting new'.
VFP is incredibly reliable; some FoxInCloud clients have FoxInCloud web apps
with over 50 forms (could be more), 50 concurrent users (could be more),
PostgreSQL database, 8 logical servers in parallel (stateless, many-to-many
relation between users and servers), running full weeks without a single error
(100% availability) while reading and writing thousands of files, tables,
memos, indexes and so forth. The busiest server runs 25k user requests per day,
that we can estimate over 1.2 billion VFP instructions, without a single error…
Bringing additional value to the existing VFP app is probably more worthy and
interesting than rewriting; eg. with FoxInCloud.
(I know I don't really answer your original question, just trying to open new
pathes).
Thierry Nivelet
FoxInCloud
Le 13/03/2019 à 16:45, Fletcher Johnson a écrit :
Hi all,
I was asked for a list of current options for someone who has a VFP
application and wants to migrate it to a supported language, with the
least amount of re-work.
I have seen many options listed, but am sure how compatible the
various alternatives are. X# looks promising, but so do some of the
others. And some that I thought were good options now appear to be
dormant or discontinued. So I thought I would check with you fine
folks to see if you know where I might find a list of current
alternatives and their level of compatibility.
Thanks,
Fletcher
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