Re: jBASE migration 3.4 to 5.2 - How difficult?

2013-01-29 Thread Dick Thiot
Kevin, You are probably going from 32-bit to 64-bit. However, if your code is all traditional MV BASIC style code I don't think that you will have a problem. We have struggled because of hooks outside of jBASE that have caused us conversion issues. I don't blame this on jBASE. It is a matter

Re: jBASE migration 3.4 to 5.2 - How difficult?

2013-01-29 Thread Darrin
I'm in the middle of a 3.4 - 5 linux based conversion right now. That also means a 64 bit conversion. Because everything needs to be recompiled, the tough call is on how thorough of re-validation is necessary. Also, somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/2 of our basic programs have needed code

Re: jBASE migration 3.4 to 5.2 - How difficult?

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Powick
On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:55:19 UTC-5, Darrin wrote: Also, somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/2 of our basic programs have needed code changes. Most of those changes are minor I know you said it affected hundreds of program files, but is it only a handful of code incompatibilities? Can

Re: jBASE migration 3.4 to 5.2 - How difficult?

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Powick
On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 04:58:23 UTC-5, Dick Thiot wrote: However, if we hadn't done what we did then we probably wouldn't have the functionality that we do also! ;-) Yes, one can often find themselves weighing the decision of whether or not to take advantage of a feature that