What should fp 6.0 look like?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:01:22PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:55:39PM -0400,
> Walter Vaughan blabbed on about:
> > 
> > Smiley duly noted. However it does bring to mind what kind of features 
> > are needed for a filePro 6.0. Realistically, what else's needed?
> 
> I forgot a biggie:
> 
> A -native- user authentication and access system.  Something akin to
> MySQL's permissions system, complete with internal user accounts, and what
> they can and can't do to any given table--or table-wide permissions if you
> want to go that route rather than specify for each individual user for a
> table.
> 
> Basically, I think it should go table-oriented takes precedence, and then
> user permissions modify that access.
> 
> At any rate, I know people that have designed ones in fP itself, but
> they're still modifiable by anyone that can launch fP and get the password,
> assuming one is assigned.
> 
> fP really wants a native, multi-tier access system after all these years,
> if we're talking things that it should have that would enhance its value.

Oh and did we mention server-side ODBC?  Oh wait; that's coming in 5.0.

;-}

Cheers,
-- jra
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