>How about Python and Dabo framework using FireBird as a back-end. Python is supposed to be very VFP like. Dabo is developed by Ed Leafe and Paul McNett, they are from the VFP community

>What say?

Thank you for dropping in.

Well, I have been using Python extensively for web-application for 18 months. It's a great language. The best I ever been in contact with. Python is as simple as you can get a computer language. And it's ahead of most languages in terms of expressiveness.

I moved a foxisapi piece of code to mod_python (apache servlet handling solution). The code shrank from roughly 5,000 to 3,500 lines with more functional cover. The speed was better as well (but not by a wide margin).

If you like VFP, you're gonna love python. Wxpython (on which dabo is based) is an other story. I tried to get in the tutorial. A bit rough if you're not a professional C++ coder by education. Not exactly a high-level lib.

Wxpython was missing a book to get me started. It's gonna be available soon from manning. I'm in the buying process just now.

I just hesitate to move significant development to Dabo because it is still a bit green. But you're right. The projet would not need to lot of additionnal support to become a brilliant way out for MS-agnostic VFPers.

>Dabo is based on the concepts of CodeBook framework for VFP, which Ed has >been maintaining and updating.

I did not know that and have no practice of VFP framework. Have you used the CodeBook?

Francois