filePro to MySQL

[Dan Coutu]

Just to throw an interesting twist into this and provide some 
stimulation for your brain cells...

MySQL 5 has recently been released. One of the particularly interesting 
features of it is that it provides a mechanism for people to extend it 
by adding new underlying database storage engines. What this means is 
that it is now technically possible, given sufficient technical 
knowledge, to make MySQL interface directly with filePro database files 
as if they were just another type of database engine (like InnoDB or 
MyISAM.)

Seems like this would be a wonderful way to combine the features of 
filePro with the ability to easily access the data for things such as 
web sites, synchronization with a remote database, directly accessing 
the data within spreadsheets, etc. This does, of course, assume that it 
's possible to design the MySQL interface so that it cooperatively 
handles the filePro locking mechnism. There are most likely other little 
details that would also have to be handled so that it's a truly 
read/write capable database interface but chances are that the knowledge 
to do that resides on this list.

Seems to me that this would help to prolong the life and usefulness of 
filePro since the value of filePro is clearly not in the database 
storage mechanism itself but rather in the ability to whip together 
forms, reports, and so forth in very little time.

Comments? Flames?

Dan