Packaging VistA - package names & use of /etc/alternatives
There are several flavors of VistA, just as there are multiple flavors of
emacs and ksh. VistA flavors (and possible Debian package names)
include: FOIA VistA (vista-foia), WorldVistA EHR (vista-worldvista-ehr or
perhaps just worldvista-ehr), OSEHRA Vista (vista-osehra), OpenVista
(vista-openvista), Astronaut Vista (vista-astronaut), vxVistA
(vista-vxvista), and likely others as well. They are all very, very,
similar, but not identical. OSEHRA has started a project to merge the
code bases, but for now they are forks. I also suggest a "vista" meta
package that any of the others can satisfy, and I suggest managing them
through the /etc/alternatives mechanism.
Any VistA package will in turn require fis-gtm to be installed. It is
the only free / open source implementation of M / MUMPS on which VistA is
known to run.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
--
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.
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