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Re: Medical device support for GNUmed



On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:52:35AM -0500, Jeff Buchbinder wrote:
>> Sounds really good to me. The newer versions (0.9.x+) have some CLI
>> install tools and just require a build cycle for the UI using ant,
>> otherwise it's pretty much the same process as before for installing
>> it.
>>
>> I'd love to help in any way I can -- my packaging efforts haven't been
>> that successful.
>
> We are linking on our TODO list to these older packaging efforts:
>
>   http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/practice#freemed
>
> If you consider this packaging effort as "not so successful" do you
> think it is better not to link to these in "Unofficial Debian package"?
> What exactly to you mean with "not successful"?  Do you think we should
> start from scratch with the packaging or would it make sense to start on
> top of your work.  In the latter case it would you provide the source
> package (*.dsc+*.diff.gz) which belongs to the *.deb or at least the
> debian/ directory?  I'm also wondering where the newer versions (0.9.x+)
> are available.  While 0.8.4 is a bit aged (3 years old) it is the latest
> version available in the SourceForge files download section.
>
>> Also, REMITT 0.5.0 is available for packaging (it's much like
>> FreeSHIM, just that it doesn't have any proprietary components) if
>> you're interested.
>
> Also REMITT is definitely on my radar (just noticed that it was missing
> on our todo list but added it now to
>
>   http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/practice.en.html#remitt

There's a pretty decent howto on packaging this type of app here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tomcat/PackagingWebapps

-- 
Thanks,
Jeff
(jeff@freemedsoftware.org)
FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc
http://freemedsoftware.org/


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