Actually Don, I think this is tremendously useful.
AOLserver does not run well on every single architecture that TCL runs on, for one.
Further, the Apache/TCL project(s) are not accomplishing anything, at least as far as I can see. There is Rivet, websh, mod_tcl etc. and they are a mishmash of code, each incompatible with each other.
This solution could well become a way for "the OpenACS way" to become a de facto standard for TCL/web app development. Which would be a good thing.