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Subj : Re: Upgrade path?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : " Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org>
Date : Thu Mar 11 2004 01:17 pm

> A client I do some analysis work for has some applications they wrote
in
> the 90's in Borland C with OWL.  The apps are DOS apps and they'd like

(!) OWL handles the Windows UI. How would a DOS app use a GUI?

> to rewrite them, keeping a lot of their algorhythmic code but writing
> new ui code.  As a Delphi programmer, I'd like to see if they could
move
> to C-Builder, C#Builder, or CBuilderX.
>
> Obviously there's rewriting involved, but what do you think is their
> best option to move to?

If OWL is used, there is OWLNext which works under Builder, and is a
fairly straightforward migration path. When I did this, my biggest chore
was switching from the BIDS class library to the STL.

At this point, I would be hesitant to recommend migrating to Builder +
VCL. There is quite a bit of concern that it might be a dead end.


Regards,
Bruce

"Read me, Dr. Memory?"

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