On 2021-02-03 20:07, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
LC Server had already been ruled out (for whatever reason) in an
earlier part of the thread...
That's too bad. LC Server is LiveCode build designed specifically for
command line use.
Interesting - I don't remember that being what I specifically designed
it for :P
LiveCode Server was *specifically designed* to be used just like PHP -
allowing you to interpolate code with HTML output for the purposes of
constructing webpages on the fly, sitting behind a web-server... That's
why it has unique syntax designed precisely for a CGI environment, and
operating in that PHP-like manner.
Making it run in command-line mode as well was an obvious thing to do,
and also made up for the fact (at the time) that bare standalone engines
would not launch a stack on the command-line (as that was a rather
gaping licensing hole which was closed between v3 and v4
IIRC). [ It also made it easier to test the general features of it! ]
Since the advent of the community edition, however, and perhaps more
importantly script-only-stacks - standalone engines running with -ui can
be just as convenient...
Assuming there isn't a feature-requiring reason to use one over the
other, then it pretty much comes down to how you want to write your text
based scripts.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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