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> People really love fancy GUIs though and few share my love to command lines.

You didn't give us much information about the context.

TUIs are semantically not much different from GUIs, it's just the optics and Tk is nowadays far from common taste, especially when confronted with Win/Mac folks.

Anyway the other client/server approaches will produce overhead, if you need to duplicate features which are already provided by ssh/putty.

For instance "user authentication":

Does security matter?
Who's allowed to use/connect to your web-app?
Who's account is used to start your process?
Who is in charge for necessary port forwardings?
and so on ...

Maybe your use case is plain vanilla and security doesn't matter!

But better be sure of the features needed when replacing ssh/putty as a tool and the amount of time you are able to invest.

I've seen too many badly maintained GUI's/ web-apps because the amount of work to keep everything up to date was underestimated.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^3: Cross-platform GUI for UNIX based scripts by LanX
in thread Cross-platform GUI for UNIX based scripts by Anonymous Monk

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