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📰 Binary distribution of PDFium
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Update README.md: adds pdfium-vfp to related projects #178

Closed dmitriychunikhin closed 2 months ago

mara004 commented 2 months ago

Interesting, but I've read that Visual FoxPro has been decommissioned and abandoned by Microsoft about 10 years ago. And it sounds like VFPX is not an open-source re-implementation of the VFP core, but rather a set of packages written in VFP, right? In that case, why are new projects being created for an unmaintained, proprietary programming language?

I have no objection to mentioning pdfium-vfp, just wondering about that situation and whether I understood correctly?

edit: fixed typos

dmitriychunikhin commented 2 months ago

Well, the short answer is VFPA http://www.baiyujia.com/vfpadvanced/ It' exists since 2012, has x64 version and somehow evolving http://www.baiyujia.com/vfpadvanced/f_vfpa_history.asp

So, vfp is not completly abandoned, not thriving yep.

Other interesting efforts:

foxlite https://github.com/Irwin1985/FoxLite

xsharp https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic

bblanchon commented 2 months ago

Merged in 21cce31. Thanks!

dmitriychunikhin commented 2 months ago

Thank you!

mara004 commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the pointers. I'm curious how VFPA works? How can they fix bugs in VFP if the core was not open-sourced (or so I read) ? Have they acquired the code from Microsoft? Or is it an independent re-implementation?

dmitriychunikhin commented 2 months ago

They patch original MS binaries.