Visual FoxPro

[Cecil Champenois]

I have heard that there is a lot of interest in moving the WINE for 
Visual FoxPro forward. About a year ago, a major FoxPro developer by the 
name of Whil Hentzen was telling our User Group www.ocfox.org about the 
Visual FoxPro work you are doing with WINE. He also demonstrated Visual 
FoxPro working on a Linux laptop. We were all very impressed by this and 
anted to jump right into development but were told that the conversion 
or whatever you want to call it was at least 1 to 1.5 years away. This 
discouraged us a bit, so what we'd like to know is this: Where does the 
WINE work in relation to VFP 6, 76 and 8 stand now?

We would like to begin some development in Linux, but need to know where 
the WINE work stands at this time and what the future looks like.

Cecil

[Steven Edwards]

Hello Cecil,

--- Cecil Champenois  wrote:
> We would like to begin some development in Linux, but need to know
> where 
> the WINE work stands at this time and what the future looks like.

I have heard a lot of good reports of FoxPro working with WINE but the
last major issue I heard was that Microsoft was restricting the
redistribution of the FoxPro runtime on Non-Microsoft platforms. It
seems they dont like people writting apps with thier tools for
non-windows platforms <g>. I cant find a link to this information
though so I could be mistaken or they may have amended the EULA to
allow this type of redistrabtution like in the case of MFC and ATL.

Thanks
Steven

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[Duane Clark]

Cecil Champenois wrote:
> I have heard that there is a lot of interest in moving the WINE for 
> Visual FoxPro forward. About a year ago, a major FoxPro developer by the 
> name of Whil Hentzen was telling our User Group www.ocfox.org about the 
> Visual FoxPro work you are doing with WINE. He also demonstrated Visual 
> FoxPro working on a Linux laptop. We were all very impressed by this and 
> anted to jump right into development but were told that the conversion 
> or whatever you want to call it was at least 1 to 1.5 years away. This 
> discouraged us a bit, so what we'd like to know is this: Where does the 
> WINE work in relation to VFP 6, 76 and 8 stand now?
>
> We would like to begin some development in Linux, but need to know where 
> the WINE work stands at this time and what the future looks like.

There is quite a bit of detailed info on the status of Wine with VFP in 
the Wine application database:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=296

That is probably a pretty good starting point.