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The past few years I have been working on a personal project, an address book so to speak. It is PHP with an MySQL backend that runs on Apache/Win32 on my localmachine. I have been using it consistently since Aug 2003, and have about 275 records. What I am thinking is I might want to make it a stand-alone app somehow. May be in another language if necessary, but keep the database backend, or use like SQLite or something. Cause I think my program would be useful for others, but the requirement for a php/mysql server on localhost is kind of a bit much for most.
Not necessarily a MS Windows app, but a graphical one, perhaps that is portable across MS Windows, OSX and X11.