clip vs harbour vs xharbour

[m***@yahoo.co.uk]

Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?
Thanks.

[Patrick Mast, xHarbour.com Inc.]

Hello Michael,

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?

You can try a free demo of xHarbour Builder form
http://www.xHarbour.com/Demo.

The demo includes everything you need to start writing applications in
xHarbour. Let me know how it goes ok?

BTW, xHarbour has its own news group at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour
--
Sincerely,

Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

[amery]

broadly i could say, clip is a very very complete clipper compiler for
unix-like enviroments.
Harbour is a more traditional implementation but multiplatform, and
xHarbour is like Harbour but not restricted to clipper original
implementations.

two years ago, after using harbour and xharbour i decided to 'marry'
clip, and i'm very happy with my decision. their (clip authors) english
is worse than mine, and development is closed, but as compiler and
extensions imho clip is the best of the three.

http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml
http://www.xharbour.org/
http://www.harbour-project.org/

[Ron Pinkas]

Michael,

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?

The only objective way to compare, would be to download all three and test
them against your code base, and expectations. Otherwise we all have our
personal preferences, which makes us biased.

If you have any technical questions, we may also be able to offer additional
information.

Ron

[m***@yahoo.co.uk]

Thanks to all those who replied. I think I'll start by evaluating Clip.
Any tips or tricks to share anybody?

[Alejandro Mery]

if you will try clip, http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/prb.html is the
first chapter to read :-)

and here you can find a knoppix (linux livecd) with clip pre-installed,
good for first steps.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/stockyfact/knoppix-clip.iso?download

Good luck,
Alejandro Mery

[roman modic]

Hello!

Is it possible to access Advantage Database Server with Clip?

Thanks, Roman

Post by Alejandro Mery
if you will try clip, http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/prb.html is the
first chapter to read :-)
and here you can find a knoppix (linux livecd) with clip pre-installed,
good for first steps.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/stockyfact/knoppix-clip.iso?download
Good luck,
Alejandro Mery

[Alejandro Mery]

yes, but i think only via odbc today.

clip has native support for mysql, postgresql, oracle, Interbase, odbc,
dbtcp and codb (a quite good object-oriented database coded in clip).
http://www.itk.ru/clip-doc.en/sql.html

i have never used "Advantage Database Server", but coding a library for
ads shouldn't be hard, the API is very well designed and you have the
other as examples :-)

Regards,
Alejandro Mery

[Patrick Mast, xHarbour.com Inc.]

Hello Michael,

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks to all those who replied. I think I'll start by evaluating Clip.
Any tips or tricks to share anybody?

When you are ready to start evaluating xHarbour. Please download the free
full demo from http://www.xHarbour.com/Demo.

We have a dedicated xHarbour DEMO support newsgroup at
news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour.Builder.Demo

The 'regular' xHarbour NG is at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour

If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
--
Sincerely,

Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

[m***@yahoo.co.uk]

Patrick Mast, xHarbour.com Inc. wrote:
(snip)

Post by Patrick Mast, xHarbour.com Inc.
The 'regular' xHarbour NG is at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour
If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
--
Sincerely,
Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

Is there web acccess to this news group anywhere? TIA

[John F. Eldredge]

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
(snip)

Post by Patrick Mast, xHarbour.com Inc.
The 'regular' xHarbour NG is at news://news.xHarbour.com/xHarbour
If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
--
Sincerely,
Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com

Is there web acccess to this news group anywhere? TIA

www.google.com

[Massimo Belgrano]

Xharbour have a GT library (contrib) for very easy porting of clipper
application http://www.csacomputer.com/gtwvw/
Xharbour and harbour have support for ads by rdd .
In last year i have replaced some clipper application with xharbour

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?
Thanks.

[Dave P]

well yes.....but thats pretty much the only way ur gonna
Most all libs today can be linked Protected....
if you dont have one that can be linked in protected
find the routines from that lib...and Replace them with your own or find
another library that has the compliment of the non protected routins
also if you have a non protected library..you can force the non protected
parts too the root of the exe

dave

Post by Massimo Belgrano
Xharbour have a GT library (contrib) for very easy porting of clipper
application http://www.csacomputer.com/gtwvw/
Xharbour and harbour have support for ads by rdd .
In last year i have replaced some clipper application with xharbour

Post by m***@yahoo.co.uk
Can anyone offer any broad comparisons of Clip, Harbour and xHarbour?
Thanks.