On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:48:51 GMT, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have a program written in VB6 (over 100,000 lines of code and 230 UI >screens) that we want to get out of VB and into a better language. The >program is over 10 years old and has already been ported from VB3 to >VB6, a job which took over two years. We would like to port it to >Python, but we need to continue to offer upgrades and fixes to the >current VB6 version. Does anybody know of ways we could go about >rewriting this, one screen at a time, in Python, and calling the screens >from the existing program? > >We are also looking for a graphics toolkit to use. IronPython with it's >.NET bindings and ability to integrate with Visual Studio looks good, >but leaves that bad MS taste in the mouth. >
Because MS is too expensive ? What you're trying to do sounds ideal for an N-tier application in .NET, where the DAL is isolated, and you can you use both VB and ASP.NET to access business objects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list