Re: Upgrading from 2.4 or 2.6

From: Gene Wirchenko (genew_at_mail.ocis.net)
Date: 10/24/04

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    "Cindy Winegarden" <cindy_winegarden@msn.com> wrote:

    >As Eric said, a re-write is your best option to take advantage of all the
    >new features in Visual FoxPro. However, don't spend time upgrading to VFP8
    >when VFP9 is just around the corner and offers even more improvements.
    >There's a free public Beta downloadable from
    >http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/ and it's definitely stable enough to get
    >started. VFP9 should release to manufacturing at the end of the year, and be
    >available on store shelved around the middle of February.

         Bah for two reasons which possibly do not apply to you, but they
    might.

      1) Versions 9 and 8 (and 7 and 6 and 5) are not that different. If
    you really need a 9 feature, then yes, hold off, but if not, go with
    8. Code written for 8 will run in 9, too.

      2) Is this a mission-critical app? If so, it would be folly to run
    it on a beta or a recent release.

    Sincerely,

    Gene Wirchenko

    Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
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         You have biases.
         He/She has prejudices.

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