Guys,
I just want to clear the air over using the www.vb2pb.org site for this project. Stan is the project manager and all I'm providing is a rent free home. I have been evolved in open source projects since 1999 and have been managing them since 2003. I have my hands full with the ScriptBasic open source project and I'm only acting as a facilitator for this one.
I was told that PowerBASIC is behind this project due to the potential sales that could come of it. If VB programmers are not willing to move to .NET, PowerBASIC is a great alternative. Is providing a hidden forum and allowing posts to the Cafe what is meant by "being behind the project"? PowerBASIC wins by default if this project produces something usable without having to lift a finger. If PowerBASIC is truely behind this project, a commitment to extend the variant type functionality to make this conversion go more smoothly would be a good sign of a commitment.
We really need to stop the positioning going on and get busy with a united front. I heard in a post on a Basic related site that FreeBASIC is moving in the direction of a VB like front end. Lets pull together and back Stan to lead us to developing a tool we all can be proud of.
John
I just want to clear the air over using the www.vb2pb.org site for this project. Stan is the project manager and all I'm providing is a rent free home. I have been evolved in open source projects since 1999 and have been managing them since 2003. I have my hands full with the ScriptBasic open source project and I'm only acting as a facilitator for this one.
I was told that PowerBASIC is behind this project due to the potential sales that could come of it. If VB programmers are not willing to move to .NET, PowerBASIC is a great alternative. Is providing a hidden forum and allowing posts to the Cafe what is meant by "being behind the project"? PowerBASIC wins by default if this project produces something usable without having to lift a finger. If PowerBASIC is truely behind this project, a commitment to extend the variant type functionality to make this conversion go more smoothly would be a good sign of a commitment.
We really need to stop the positioning going on and get busy with a united front. I heard in a post on a Basic related site that FreeBASIC is moving in the direction of a VB like front end. Lets pull together and back Stan to lead us to developing a tool we all can be proud of.
John
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