From: kclark@cmpu.net Subject: WANTED: Interested in Userland Frontier for Linux? Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:28:18 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bronco is an attempt to make a free clone of Userland's Frontier scripting environment. You can read about Frontier at http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/. There isn't anything like Frontier available for Linux. Linux and Apache are the premier server-side Web platform. Linux plus the GIMP and something like Frontier could become the premier client-side Web platform. What is Frontier, really? This is the way Dave Winer, chief developer, describes Frontier: Frontier is an automated Content Management System, designed for technical users and website developers. It's the most powerful cross-platform website management system on the market. Frontier is built around an efficient object database and integrated scripting language and an object-oriented website framework. A key component of Frontier is its built-in outliner. It's also a powerful multi-threaded runtime environment, with a comprehensive verb set, ideal for building server applications. Unlike competitive products, Frontier 5 benefits from integration of the database, outliner, scripting language and runtime environment. In the future we will provide the ability to run non-proprietary syntaxes such as Perl, Tcl and JavaScript; and will provide powerful connections to non-native database formats. Also coming in future versions is more powerful text editing and site organizing capabilities built on Frontier's outliner, and in addition to supporting HTML-based sites, we will also add the most comprehensive XML support in the industry, working in conjunction with Microsoft and others. Frontier 5 is a free product. With version 5.1, due mid-year, we will offer a commercial version and a free version. We think something like that ought to be freely available for Linux, and it's not. Who's involved? So far, there's just Niel Bornstein (nbornstein@plr.com) and Kendall Clark (kclark@cmpu.net). We're looking for volunteers. If you're interested, please visit http://www.ntlug.org/bronco/ and then send an e-mail to kclark@cmpu.net. Thanks, Kendall Clark - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNNHHY1rUI/eHXJZ5AQH8lQQA0LSh/t+OfVTSk+hdnOK2QVH+zAkK5iMG kcUJWsaxu2jDlV78HBdgIA3Y/mUylBfJqJl49Ol7ruAErAWznUKL1Lk6lRUessht r6QHZupWF08YCpU/BOgouo2/Td0yyYdNyu2MGR0CsNFN8SAXA+yLlOwhxZai2CYG nYtrd7IPkGU= =zMvs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----