I've been following the uSQLiteServer conversations, and suddenly a light came ON. ( which often happens at my age).
Perusing my "SQLITE WEB SERVER" documents, I find....... ........................................ >March '04 >borivoj wrote: >>Hello everybody, >> >>I would like to know is there anybody other willing to share experiences >>in TWS - all-in-one web server, tcl and sqlite combination provided by >>Richard on http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tws >> >>Since I am mostly on windows I've managed to find windows version of >>TWS, tested it and it looks very promising , at least for a small >>intranet server. >> >>what worries me is that it looks rather old: "TWS was released as beta >>on Feb 17, 2001." and that there is no mention in the sqlite groups >>since the beginning. (on yahoo groups). I found hard to believe that >>nobody else noticed TWS. Why? >> >>.......................................................................... ....................... >D. Richard Hipp responds: >TWS never picked up much mindshare - everybody wanted to >used LAMP. Even those who were not enamored with LAMP >were only interested in algol-derived languages, not >more powerful lisp-family languages like Tcl which TWS >uses, so nobody paid TWS much mind. I, therefore, didn't >maintain the website. > >But rest assured, TWS continues to be used. I continue >to use the original TWS internally. Decendents of TWS >have found their way into commercial products I've done >for customers. Those products are currently in active >use around the world. > >If enough people bug me about it, I'll go in and update >the public code base for TWS with some more recent >enhancements and bug fixes. > ............................................................................ .............................. Nov'05 Tom Shafer adds: My TWS setup has been running (with zero attention) on an old NT 4.0 server since 2003 !!! I cannot praise it enough. TWS has no peers. But,,, there is always a better mousetrap. I can't wait to get my hands on uSQLiteServer. Kudos !!!
