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[Michel Benevento]

>I would say yes and no to this. While I like the idea of being able 
>to run Frontier the same way I can run MySQL and PostgreSQL, it's not 
>really the same type of application.

You have to separate development and deployment of services. Frontier has
no CLI for development/configuration, but for running something like
Manila or webPress (our own web-based CMS), there is no difference.

Back in the Frontier 4 days, I used to retrieve/install ODB-parts between
two copies using NetFrontier, thus separating development and deployment;
I'm sure this is pretty trivial to re-implement using XML-RPC. Perhaps
this exists already.


> I find that there are all kinds 
>of times when I want/need to work in Frontier's interface. You can 
>proabably do 98% of that work via Timbuktu (which I'm not that 
>familiar with), but for an interface driven app, which Frontier still 
>is to a large extent, there's no substitute for working on the 
>console.

These days we use Timbuktu (giving 100% control), which has the odd
requirement of booting with a graphics card on the server with a monitor
or a specific plug attached, or - and I found this out recently - no
graphics card at all!

So long,
Michel