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thanks for the suggestion, sounds like a good idea. hopefully they have adequate version control in place
>>Regarding "favorite pattern" the original developer is unavailable, and the company maintaining it has limited knowledge of VFP.
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>Ooops - in that case I'd make SURE to ask them if you should eval the app twice or perhaps 1.5 times:
>once the last version of the original dev and again the last maintained by a limited knowledge guy.
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>Had to revive a large app once and was fuming about it: some parts quite wellwritten, others lousy -
>the maintainer had really twisted a design not bad at all (even if not my cup of tea, but workable
>if you stay inside the mechanisms planned and offered) into a monster. Realized that as I SourceSafed
>the versions over 4 years (maintainer hadn't used SSafe and had left a huge pool of open calls,
>some of them stemming from years back and marked "unsolvable". Guess what: they weren't <g>.
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>Might make a diference in estimating how to "fix" if possible, if you see the originally planned design.
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>my 0.20 EUR (been there..)
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>thomas
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