Harbour : benefit's ?

[Franklin Demont]

Converting to harbour was succesfull : now i can compile for harbour or xharbour.

BUT : What are now the benefits ? I made some speed tests but the differences are to small.

I hoped that in Harbour RMDBFCDX is available , Is it ? .

How esplain to a enduser to switch to harbour and take the risks to have some error's (at least in the beginning) ?

Frank Demont

[Antonio Linares]

Frank,

1. For me, the main reason is the technical level and the commitment level of the Harbour development team.

2. I use Harbour, with no problems at all, on Windows, Mac and Linux. xHarbour does not provide this. I have tried it and it fails to build.

3. Harbour users are growing and growing and this means:

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"; or more formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus'_Law

[hag]

Antonio:

What do you use to complie for MAC?

[Antonio Linares]

Harvey,

I use Harbour and the gcc compiler included in Apple's Xcode package.

Apple recently released a Xcode command line tools (gcc is included) that avoid the need to install the entire Xcode package:
http://developer.apple.com/downloads

[hmpaquito]

Franklin,

http://harbour-project.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/harbour-project/trunk/harbour/doc/xhb-diff.txt

Regards

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Franklin,

http://harbour-project.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/harbour-project/trunk/harbour/doc/xhb-diff.txt

Regards

Thank you for the info.

I was also thinking to move from xHarbour to Harbour, but now I just see that BACKGROUND TASK are not supported in Harbour. In one of my application I'm using that (Updating screen when an other user change something in the database) .
Is there a simular funcion in Harbour? Or do I need a timer?

Thanks,
Marc

[Randal]

Frank:

Have you done any comparisons between Harbour's dbfcdx and rmdbfcdx?

Thanks,
Randal

Converting to harbour was succesfull : now i can compile for harbour or xharbour.

BUT : What are now the benefits ? I made some speed tests but the differences are to small.

I hoped that in Harbour RMDBFCDX is available , Is it ? .

How esplain to a enduser to switch to harbour and take the risks to have some error's (at least in the beginning) ?

Frank Demont

[Franklin Demont]

Frank:

Have you done any comparisons between Harbour's dbfcdx and rmdbfcdx?

Thanks,
Randal

Converting to harbour was succesfull : now i can compile for harbour or xharbour.

BUT : What are now the benefits ? I made some speed tests but the differences are to small.

I hoped that in Harbour RMDBFCDX is available , Is it ? .

How esplain to a enduser to switch to harbour and take the risks to have some error's (at least in the beginning) ?

Frank Demont

Randal ,

I was used to work with RMDBFCDX from xharbour commercial.

In mine aplication on some indexes (very time consuming and complex) , DBFCDX was never ending. RMDBFCDX has no problems.

When i returned to BCC as compiler i had to simplify some indexes to overcome this limitation. I hoped that RMDBFCDX was available in harbour but it seems not to be

Frank

[hua]

Frank, harbour\contrib\rddbm can't help?

[Franklin Demont]

Frank, harbour\contrib\rddbm can't help?

Thanks for the info , i will try it

Have you experience with it ?

Frank

[hua]

Sorry Frank. Have used neither RMDBFCDX nor BMDBFCDX before.