Re: [Gnumed-devel] Installation

[Karsten Hilbert]

> 1) Installation. 
> 
> I agree, the installation experience is seriously crap. I often have 
> trouble if I get behind on updates, despite having been involved as a 
> developer for nearly 2 years.
One thing that even I ;-)  think is bad about the current
installation process is that still fairly often client
enhancements are related to schema changes and vice versa. For
that reason I keep my public database up to date so people
have *something* to work against ...

> Installing from CVS has never been for the faint-hearted, for any 
> package, this is why 
> Gnumed needs to be properly packaged. Sebastian is working on windows. I 
> have promised RPMs, Andreas Tille already has .debs. I urge him again to 
> consider an apt-get'able repository, despite gnumed's low 
> functionality.
Off-list Andreas has related some news to me that he's
considering going life fairly soon.

It may be worthwhile to consider providing two packages with
different scope: gnumed-for-real.* with only the working
plugins configured and gnumed-for-hacking with all the code...

Karsten
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