Runtime Engine

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Oct 26 23:30:50 EDT 2005


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Last I heard the engine remained free for CGI work to help evangelize 
>> the language in a context not likely to affect sales of the GUI product.
>>
>> In the worst-case scenario if that turns out to no longer be the case, 
>> one could use a standalone as a CGI, no?
> 
> 
> Don't know, but my guess would be "no". A standalone has a stack 
> attached. When there's a stack, the engine tries to launch in GUI mode. 
> I suspect that would cause errors.
> 
> Haven't tried it though.

I haven't actually done it myself, but Mark Waddingham or someone else 
at RunRev once suggested it should work. I guess when running with a .mt 
it's no different from using libraries, which definitely work when 
running as a CGI...

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