VB to Python migration

[drewdr at yahoo.com]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:48:51 GMT, Josh <josh-post at istedconsulting.com>
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.