Stephen - interesting points - especially as that is probably EXACTLY
What UCLA wants!!!
-K-
On 3/14/2019 1:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
In all the years of writing apps have you ever had a talented user who told
you what they wanted to be even close to what they ended up with?
That being said, a rewrite allows the developer to "fix" the poor decisions
and tweaks to fix them. If you had that commitment from the champion why
not get it off the desktop and make it contemporary to apps in the 2020
time frame? That could be cloud, web, tablet/phone, as well as PC. Those
may be what the user wants in the re-write anyway.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:01 PM Kevin J Cully <[email protected]>
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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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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