Re: Starting packaging VistA (Re: LSM in Geneva)
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:34:43AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> > Or does it *depend* on a *fis-gtm* package and will it
> > contain code to setup a vista database
> > (schema/layout/tables/whatever it is called in vista land)
> > in a fis-gtm database engine environment ?
>
> Yes,
> this second is a closer to a correct description.
>
> The package : vista-2012
>
> depends on
>
> The package : fis-gtm
>
> What the vista-2012 .deb file contains is the
> schema/tables...etc.
>
> A lot of the VistA intelligence is in its own data structure
> organization. There is also a good deal of "code-like"
> material embedded in the "database".
OK, good. So this is pretty much like GNUmed which
"consists" of 3 packages
apt-get install postgresql
apt-get install gnumed-server
apt-get install gnumed-client
> We will only have:
>
> apt-get install fis-gtm
> apt-get install vista
>
>
> One could think of "vista" as a mixture of
> backend and (one) client.
Same here. Since PostgreSQL already comes with psql, which
is a console client for the database, and since GNUmed
provides "clinically usable" views at the database level one
might argue that the -server already comes with (one)
"client".
> In practice, the most used client for VistA is called
> CPRS, which is a separate but closely related project
> that provides a GUI, built on Delphi, and only works
> on... MS Windows.
I know, I'm not expecting that :-)
> The current "vista" package provides also access
> in the form of "command-line"- client.
>
> This is usually referred to as "roll-and-scroll"
> interface to VistA.
And, AFAIK, for some (say, some non-clinical) parts there
isn't even another interface just yet.
> The next generation client for VistA will probably
> be a Web based system based on EWD, which
> is indeed the next project we would like to package
> for Debian. :-)
What's the CRPS license, btw ?
> Note also that GT.M is a demon-less database.
>
> Bhaskar & Amul will be better brains to explain
> these features... :-)
I know, a couple of months ago I pestered Bhaskar about that
until I got it.
Karsten
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