You kinda had this in Clipper. You have the basic stuff in one LIB and extended and add-ons in separate LIBs that could be linked or not as needed. In theory, this is a great idea. In practice, I can see where VFP might be an environment where new functions were built on the backs of old and taking out the old might require a complete re-engineering of the new.

>It would be great, if Visual FoxPro stuff which provides backward compatibility could be technically separated from newer and better version of Visual FoxPro and added to the package as separate DLL.
>So, if somebody wanted the backward compatibility then s/he could add this DLL to the project.
>More opinions?
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>Nick