Hmm... Those a good points. Do you think that people would be happy with a VFP clone that had the same funcionality and used the existing data format, but wouldn't be able to read/write existing classes, etc? Not only that, but it would have to be written in a standard C so that Windows could run the exe.


>I don't think a clone of VFP is a far fetched idea for Linux. First dump the whole GUI interface and create the language, command line and database engine. Target the VFPClone for the web. Also provide interfaces of the engine to languages like Perl and C and Delphi and Java (No ODBC crap needed).
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>Initially the command line can be a rudimentary window just like the command box we have now.
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>Another thing that can be done is to make VFPclone act as a client/server with multithreading.
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>The fact the you are able to create sophisticated DBFS/CDXs can be very appealing to people.
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>Then as a final item make the VFPClone open-source under GNU license.
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>Costas