[Ur] ur ready for writing offline apps on windows?

[Adam Chlipala]

Marc Weber wrote:
> Do you feel its suicide to use urweb for creating desktop based applications
> accessing local database data (offline)
> for Windows? Obviously the app would run in a localhost:XXX browser
> window then.
>    

No, I wouldn't call it "suicide." ;)

I don't see any reason why it particularly matters where the web server 
is running, w.r.t. Ur/Web's production-readiness.  Of course, I'm still 
calling Ur/Web "beta" quality, so keep that in mind.

Someone did get Ur/Web working in Windows, via Cygwin I believe, but I 
don't know the details and don't have advice there.

> Has anybody thought about making urweb udpate database schemes
> automatically? Then people can upgrade without knowing about database
> schemes? Which would be the best way to implement it?
>    

It seems like the individual DBMSes ought to have utilities for doing 
this; the process needn't know anything about Ur/Web.  Anyone know one?