MVC (was Text database using custom properties)

[Dave LeYanna]

Right now we have created a database in PostgreSQL that maps the dBase 
files as close as we can and have written a "conversion" program to 
create an "import" file to update these PostgreSQL tables with. We also 
have a set of "normalized" tables in the same PostgreSQL database and we 
"massage" the data into them every night. We do the same thing the other 
way, back to some of the dBase tables. We are working with 2 systems at 
one time, chopping off some stuff from the old dBase system and writing 
models in the "new" PostgreSQL system. We want to use Rev for the 
end-users and are creating little pieces at a time but we don't want to 
get to far if we can work the MVC in...

Dave

Mark Wieder wrote:

>Dave-
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>Monday, December 12, 2005, 7:47:09 AM, you wrote:
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>>I really would like to use MVC if I can because I am on the brink of a
>>LARGE project that needs to last a long time and go through a lot of
>>contortions by many different programmers over it's lifetime. We are a
>>non-profit and I am "converting" an old FoxPro for DOS system that was
>>started in the 80s (and still runs in a DOS window... on a 50 user 
>>network with some data access provided to 5 other offices across the state.
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>Interesting project. I started on a dbf library a while back to do
>similar conversions. Luckily the syntax in the .prg files is fairly
>similar to xtalk (verb, object, parameters) and there are relatively
>straightforward mappings of functions. Plus the .dbf file format is
>well-documented.
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