Re: Starting packaging VistA (Re: LSM in Geneva)
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 08:44:21AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>
> Yes, that's a good point.
>
> The same question came up on Friday
> among VistA developers. :-)
>
> http://osehra.org/event/code-convergence-call-thursday-july-12th#comment-640
>
> The good news is that:
>
> It is indeed the case that updates will be
> very small compared to the size of VistA itself.
BTw, I tweaked get-orig-source to use xz compression which saves 150MB.
> Again, comparing VistA to Linux: Updates usually come in the
> form of focused updates to one of the many VistA components,
> and very rarely in the form of a whole system-wide update.
>
> Currently VistA is organized into Packages (at least at the file
> representation level). There are about 125 Packages.
I have no idea about VistA but I somehow have the gut feeling that the
plan to put all this into one large package is not the best idea we had.
It might be a better idea to have a 1:1 relation between the VistA
packages and Debian packages. Please note that this is actually no
suggestion based on knowledge about VistA organisation but as I said
rather a gut feeling. Perhaps it is possible to establish some
semi-automatic packaging mechanism (like it is for instance done for R
packages).
> ... long stuff deleted ...
>
> Consider the highly simplified scenario:
>
> a) July 2012: Install VistA
>
> b) August 2012 - April 2015: Load patient data into VistA
>
> c) September 2015: Install VistA updates, without losing
> nor damaging (b)
What I also wonder: How did you decided about the versio number VistA
1.0?
> This certainly will be a great topic for a
> joint hackathon of Debian and VistA developers... :-)
Seems so.
> At this early point of the VistA Debian packaging, this is certainly
> not intended as the system that you could deploy in a clinical facility.
Yes, we are experimenting.
> The goal rather is to make VistA readily available to anyone who
> want to take a look at the system, and get familiar with it, hopefully
> then joining the VistA community and helping develop, maintain
> and improve the system.
Lets try our best.
Thanks for the long explanation
Andreas.
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