Here's a thought:

If the core and GUI are separate, and the core is done using OO methods, it 
will actually be pretty easy to produce a version of the core that runs on 
Free/Net/OpenBSD.  There are differences in the interfaces, but they are not 
large and could easily be hidden inside some os-specific classes that 
implement a bunch of well defined interfaces and/or abstract classes.

Now that PHP5 supports this kind of functionality I don't see why it shouldn't 
work.

Indeed, although PHP does not support threading - it does support classic 
process control stuff (fork/exec/signal) and IPC via sockets is also 
available.

I do LIKE the idea of staying with the same language in both core and gui, and 
PHP is one of reasons for m0n0's popularity.

I await a thorough a debunking of this idea - but I am off to bed.

Peter

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