[rch]

Thanks for the context - I'm not sure if we've met, but I definitely know and respect your work. Of course there are compromises with this approach, but unfortunately I need a set of capabilities that are not currently available from a single source. Ultimately this just another entrant in a field of options, some of which have evolved in a similarly ad hoc fashion (though one I'm looking at has been under development for 25 years). I hope it can at least hold its own.