Re: Is there any good method of identifying where FOX is still in use today?

Opensource C++ based programs? Very little to none i would say. Try
searching some of the more popular distributions and you won't find any or
just very old packages for no longer maintained Linux distributions. No
point in packaging FOX 1.7 (although some keep on trying) as ABI/API breaks
every release. No point in  packaging  FOX 1.6 as there's no software that
depends on it.

Sure, not everything gets packaged, but if there's a large enough demand
somebody will do it.

You probably find more FXRuby based programs (quite a few show up on GitHub
search), but then again probably limited audience as i personally never
encountered any software that required Ruby and/or FXRuby.

If i had to guess probably the majority of users are in the commercial
sector for either in house tools or perhaps even commercially distributed
software. Those typically don't require install from the OS package
management software so won't depend on having fox installed by the OS.

Perhaps there may be even a large Windows user group using fox but as i
haven't touched Windows development in a long time i can't say.

So in conclusion, my guess is that if there's already a community, it will
be very tiny and majority will be commercial vendors who don't like
sharing. And given the closed development nature of the project I don't
expect it to grow anytime soon.

Cheers,

Sander

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 09:49 Roland Hughes via Foxgui-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thought I would spin this off from the other conversation because this,
> assuming FOX would somehow become community driven, is really the
> central question.
>
> Is there any good method of identifying where FOX is still in use today?
>
> On Manjaro it appears Goggles Music Manager is built using FOX. When you
> open the "add remove" software application and search for "fox gui" that
> comes up.
>
> For all of these legacy/heritage platforms (which I applaud FOX for
> still supporting) is there any good method of identifying what is still
> in use where? It's not "just an Intel PC world" out there. Whatever is
> trendy today has to be lived with for a long time.
>
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/lts/
>
> On mid-range and mainframe systems we used to take 5-7 years developing
> core business systems, they would take another 5-7 years to settle in,
> after that we would take another 5-7 years gathering really good
> information about what the projected needs of the business would be
> 10-20 years out so we could have good systems in place to meet that need.
>
> The slow roll and not dropping of platforms is one of the things I
> really like about the FOX project. Qt abandons platforms willy-nilly.
> Don't be Qt. Don't cut off half your torso to use something new and cool.
>
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