Re: Bug#564285: ITP: openmolar -- dental practice management software

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:06:48AM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > I hope you will carefully and critically review the project.
> 
> Before, I need to start it -- here it just segfaults ;)

:-(
 
> Well, I don't, but I'd like to see more choices for the user. Possibly, if the 
> dental practice only has one computer, installing MySQL/PostgreSQL is 
> overkill, and SQLite could be a better choice.

I strongly disagree.  SQLite is just no option for practice management because
this is just not light.

> For Client-Server solutions, 
> I'd like to see both MySQL and PostgreSQL implemented -- maybe using a 
> backend-agnostic module.

I do not see any real sense into this.  If you try to be
backend-agnostic you are limiting the features of the database to a
small common set of features rather than making profit from the feature
richness of PostgreSQL.  I will not start a private Database flamewar
with you because there are way to much in the internet.  There are
perfect use cases for MySQL - IMHO practice management is not such
a case and you need some more features.  Writing a practice management
system is not about picking any tool I know by chance but rather find
out which is really capable for the task.
 
> > If you have contact to upstream
> 
> I already sent him a mail, to improve the provided tarball a bit, before even 
> starting the packaging work.

Great.
 
> > I would strongly recommend building a connection to GNUmed which has a quite
> > developed database model which enables I18N etc.
> 
> Connection of what type, and in what ways? :)

  1. Communication with the authors
  2. Read and understand the database model
 
> Thanks for writing me -- I would've committed this to debian-med nevertheless 
> ;)

Ahh, right - I intended to actually CC Debian Med - so I do now and
hope even if I deleted some quotes it is understandable anyway.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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