Hello everyone, I haven't developed any new applications in MVD for quite some time but I still visit this forum with interest. As abandonment of the MVD project is now in years, we all know it's risky deploying new applications and I'm slowly redeveloping mine using other systems. We can't predict when any of the add-on components will fail and allowing this risk in a deployed application is unthinkable.
If people are committed to Pascal, I'd say that the next logical step is Lazarus. I was using Lazarus years ago and it is still actively developed and released free of charge. I did some small project work back then and was very pleased with it. Take a look at the Application Gallery on their web site and one cannot help but wonder what a newbie could work towards achieving. Yes, it will take more work than we're used to but in the very least I believe I need to be transitioning to other systems in order to be confident in what I deploy.
Another excellent feature of MVD is the forum. We can ask any questions and the trail of posts remains friendly and helpful.
I'm expecting MVD users are mostly like-minded and areas of difficulty in other software would be common to most users transitioning.
I still regard MVD as the best database development software I've ever used but unresolved bugs and the growing gap between the last update and current time amounts to a growing risk.
An idea - Would it be possible for someone to setup and administer a completely separate forum where people could discuss how they can achieve equivalent features in other software such as Lazarus? For example, you want to sort columns, ask the forum. I'm thinking that there could be value in some sort of forum to assist people in transitioning until they're ready to participate in the full forum.
It's just an idea but thoughts??