Pipelines was never intended to represent a port of CMS Pipelines - nor w as it originally intended for anything other than a useful tool for those ti mes when you might need to modify/translate some data.
My background was as a VM/TPF systems programmer and one day I realised t hat I could really use a tool 'like' CMS Pipelines - but there wasn't one on my Windows platform. So I wrote Pipelines. James.