Yes to both. I like the idea as long as it is concurrent with stand alone tools. I really like the idea as a packaged ISO that has everything included that is needed to run it on ones own server,
We probably need to get the current prototype committed to a repository and come up with packages for Linux. And then we can hand this over to the community.
Obviously, people should be familiar with TerraGear and php/html - but otherwise, the code looks fairly straightforward actually.
We'll definitely have to be very careful about the resources we may be using and of the possible concurrent accesses.
psadro_gm also mentioned previously, that there are some hard-coded restrictions in place that may conflict with the TG toolchain being used "concurrently" (mostly mutex/locking stuff).
Until those issues are fixed/addressed, it may be better to use cron to schedule jobs sequentially.
However, F-JJTH said that he's only exposing parts of the TG toolchain for now - so this may not even be an issue
I think we need to find some good/powerful hosting and play with this a bit, to gather some community feedback.
Now that we have a prototype, it should be fairly easy to find people interested in using this, but also interested in contributing.
And F-JJTH mentioned that he's considering to get in touch with the scenemodels folks to get this hosted.
readonly file access should be a no-brainer actually.
But output should probably use temporary directories...