> IMHO, a simple command line tool (just as ZPL and XWisp are)
> written in ANSI compliant C, would have as much cross
> plattform compatibility as ZPL and XWisp has today.

Yeah, but C is a pain to write complex programs. Trust me, I know :(

> In both cases I'd expect *some* platform dependant code
> anyway.

For XWisp I used a library that hides the Windows/Linux/Python-on-Java
details. I am not aware of any such library in C. And consider: instead
of a Python program the user of a forgein OS would get a C file and have
to compile that, probably after installing a C compiler first. I am not
sure that is any better than having to install the Python distribution.

But Rob seems to be on your side and has written (almost) exactly what
you want.

Wouter van Ooijen

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