Re: NewEra 2.0 and Win95 ?

At 08:11 PM 6/12/96 GMT, David Morrison wrote: >Any ideas of a UK release date on New Era 3? My company is currently >evaluating release 2 for a new project. We have never used New Era >before. We are under the impression that MOST of our 4gl (for Windows) >code will remain unchanged, mainly reports and processing, but ALL our >screen based programs will need rewriting. That's pretty accurate - as far as it goes... >We have tons and tons of code, about 200 forms (.per's), about 100 >reports, 60-70 'screen' programs and the rest is 'processing' code. >According to the gumf we have on New Era, we should have quite an easy >job in converting our 4gl apps into New Era. I somehow don't think this >rings true :-) Yessss..... >Have many informixers in this newsgroup migrated from 4gl to New Era 2?? We did, but we did a rewrite, not just a migration. >What were the major pitfalls you found? Unbelievable learning curve in learning to use an Object-Oriented approach. Some nasty memory leaks (may or may not be fixed in 2.11). The application framework can be cumbersome and not entirely intuitive. Some serious effort is required to come to terms with some of the quirks. Early versions had some *real* holes in the REPORT functionality. But after all that, I think it was worth the effort. :-) The migration should be a *bit* easier! HTH. Hasta la vista! -- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za