Experience with vb2py?

[Peter Maas]

asdf sdf wrote:
> vb2py sounds terric but i don't want to be the first guineau pig who 
> gambles his project on it.
 >
 > i have a large VB project lying around that may have to be upgraded.  i
 > would love to see it go to python.

It's reasonable to ask for opinions but if you want to use it for
a large project you should experiment with it anyway. Create a little
hello world dialog and try to convert it. Populate it with more
complicated controls, add database and network connections and try to
convert it again. My bet is that vb2py won't do *all* of the work for
you. I once tried to convert a medium sized project (25 kloc) from
vb6 to vb.net and the migration assistant supplied by MS aborted after
a 3 hours run. Python and VB are much more different so I assume that
vb2py saves the low level typing work like converting loops, ifs and
defs which is very valuable but the high level conversions that require
to understand the code will probably be up to you.

Please don't forget to report your results in c.l.py because
i don't want to be the first guinea pig who gambles his project
on it. :)

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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