XHarbour
Description
An open source xBase database compiler. A fork of Harbour, xHarbour was meant to be a more modern implementation of the xBase standard with better support for "modern GUI concepts". Initially it featured all the same back ends as Harbour had but as the main developers announced their intention to make the product commercial and as such support only Windows and Linux, most of the people supporting back ends other than these two went back to the Harbour Project. The xHarbour project and in particular the open source variant is now for all intents dead as far as new developments are concerned although a sole developer has been keeping the Windows version updated privately but his changes do not show up in the official branch and sometimes are difficult to get hold of.
Versions
- Latest OS/2 version: 0.99.7 - GCC back end support only.
- Latest Windows version: 1.20.1
- Latest Linux version: 1.20
- All other ports: 0.99.6 (DOS, Mac OSX, FreeBSD)
Links
- xHarbour Homepage
- xHarbour commercial homepage
- Visual xHarbour - GUI development front end.
- xHarbour newsgroup
Author
- Harbour Project (Original author)
- Ron Pinkas (xHarbour head honcho)
- Mel Smith