Hi Jos,

I am definitely convinced that Windev is A GREAT PIECE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. Apart from the ladies offering their support to marketing... Nothing at all to complain about. Especially as a froggie.

I have receive feedback over the years that say it all including yours. During the 90s, Windev was an under-fox as performance would not be on par with specifications. The local db engine was anemic and the language structure was not inline with expectations (mine were python at that time and still are...). But well, I understand that these times are over. The language is said to be more than a decent construct and the local engine to be robust.

However the truth is, in my case, that I am looking for a language with open source as a starting point.

Our application is written in VFP. But it is some sort of highly specialized calculation engine and not exactly the typicall busines-centric app that most Windev developpers would typically build (no two-more-more-tiers sql engine, no reporting engine requirements). And on top of that we have too much code written here and too many bad experiences with closed boxes including VFP of course.

Being a relatively early pythonista - 90s edition - I'd have jumped the app much earlier if it have included an acceptable GUI-building platform. Python gui-dev productivity is low with wx and qt. It is decent with Tkinter. But well, moving a VFP application from to a tkinter-python-look-n-feel is not an attractive proposition. Wx has proved to be unsupported for so many years and well QT from python is relatively a complex beast. Productivity would be slow for quite a while.

It looks like the Xsharp tries to be an effective open-source Xbase-and-fox on dotnet. Of course, I take that with some perspective as this may be to high a target to reach. But well, feedback by testers, if any, is welcome:-)

So feedback on Xsharp is welcome. Bad news that noone here has run tests up to now. The Xsharp league is possiby only a follow-up on the clipper-VO-harbours-and-al developpers community with little chance of VFP community inroads. That's what I am trying to assess here.

Daniel