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>>You are certainly right about the compatibility issue, as well as the somewhat haphazard approach to this whole project by eTecnologia. Having said that, the part that holds the most promise, however, is the fact that you can use the tool to build the tool -- that's quite a hat trick. So, if you are missing some functions, you can write the functions using the functions and commands that already exist. This part, I think, holds most promise as an open source model of sorts. If (and it is a sizeable if) people jump into the bandwagon and start writing code to complete the missing features (at least as far as built-in functionality is concerned), the system could quickly approach 100% compatibility as far as the core language is concerned. Writing commands is tougher, of course, and writing SET() -functions and other things that need to be low-level is even tougher.
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>Yes, for example, full SQL support is a huge missing piece. Is database support also missing? I don't see most end users adding something like this in themselves - it has to be provided by eTechnologia.

Full SQL support "is coming shortly", VFP databases are fully supported (including set oriented and record oriented navigation) End users couldn't add something like this, for sure.

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>>This project has been under construction for a long time already, and it has produced some very impressive functionality and many frustrating dead-ends. The underlying technology has changed at least once that I know of, which has probably slowed down the progress even more. As the VFP community is shuffling off to various directions, time is running out (or may already have run out) for a replacement system, which is really too bad. But as Darwin would say, in order to survive we must adapt to change, and luckily for our species we are able to adapt more than any other species, because we can learn new things quickly and try new approaches in a controlled way without the usual multi-generational lag.
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>>And by the way, eTecnologia IS implementing WPF and Silverlight into their framework system as we speak.
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>That proves my point ;-) they're jumping around too much. Focus on the core things - the other stuff is just icing on the cake (which means it's pointless right now since the cake isn't even out of the oven).

lol.