| sounds interesting... but why are you "not comfortable" with 
| the idea of having perl installed in a production environment?

Because my experiences with that are very bad. Perl is good for
UN*X-based servers, but its implementation in NT is not good, it has the
tendency to take too much CPU power, especially if more than few scripts
is running simultaneously. If you don't use the Active Scripting
component, it creates too much running processes. And the AS alternative
is much slower than VBScript or Jscript.

| also i noticed your released your tools using the gnu gpl 
| license... well you can't
| really distribute the source for windows scripting host or other
| dependancies... which is required in the gpl license.

No, it is not required. GPL doesn't require the needed parts of my
program to be GPL too. Using this logic, Xmail itself cannot be
GPLicensed, because it's Windows version needs Windows to run. GPL is
one-way: covers the idea of incorporating GPL licensed product to
something else. The result must be under GPL. But I may use non-GPL
portions in my software, if their license allows it. 

It allows me to build free application on top of commercial background.

Additionally, WSH is major component of Windows operating system, which
makes falling it into final paragraph of the 3. part.

| XML does indeed have a bit too much overhead... as xalan 

Well: the motivation to use XML for me is to have generally compatible
format, accessible for any other program, withount need to write special
parser for specific file format. But I agree that the XML is very
"gossipy" format, which may be not soo practical, but it's related to
the universality mentioned above.

-- Altair

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