The "Application Template" feature is an indication that the developers have caught on to the idea that Blender has become an application framework. I hope they

The "Application Template" feature is an indication that the developers have caught on to the idea that Blender has become an application framework. I hope they will embrace this more, in the future. I wrote a couple of command line "apps", which are basically blender running with a particular script, a particular Python Path and a particular blender file, then with some command line arguments.