On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Titus Brown wrote:

> Bigger question for y'all, on this theme: what's with QP?
>
> I must confess, I don't understand it.  At all.  I downloaded it,
> got it
> running, poked around a bit, and gave up.  The docs were (as far as I
> could tell) nonexistent, which really didn't help.  (I might have
> spent
> more time with it if it ran on Windows, but it didn't meet my
> immediate
> needs at the time.)

QP is an attempt to find a stable platform for running
multiple applications like the ones we make using Dulcinea,
Quixote, and Durus.    If you were able to get through the
README file, you had three web applications running,
including one with users, sessions, authentication,
forms, crumbs, and menus.   One could do all this
with Quixote, Dulcinea, and a different database, but it
would take a lot longer to figure out how.
You are correct, though, that there is no other documentation
specific for QP, and I'm sorry for that.  We plan to write it.

> In the eyes of mems-exchange, is this a successor to Quixote?
> (*Can* it
> be, if it doesn't run on Windows?)

There isn't any difference between QP and Quixote with respect
to compatibility.  The scgi server used by both uses passfd, which
does not run on Windows.

> What's the long-term future of
> Quixote, if any, in the eyes of mems-exchange?

I don't know of any future big changes in the status, features, or
availability of Quixote.  But you never know.  This list was pretty
quiet for a while, and then have a flurry.