Re: [Gnumed-devel] may help

[catmat]

Ian Haywood wrote:

> Jython (www.jython.org) is a Python interpreter for the Java VM, this may be 
> what you are looking for.
> Personally I would have much much preferred if Syan had written his web 
> interface in Python, I still cannot see the advantage of Java at all,
> but it's too late now ;-)
>
> Ian
>  
firstly, I don't know how to write web clients in Python;   tomcat and 
struts are popular and I just wanted to stay fashionable.
I looked at Zope as suggested, but didn't get very far; it still looks 
like a content management system.
I think I peeked at twisted , but I can't remember what it was about . 

I get the impression that the the gnumed team is reluctant to take on 
any other package dependencies, is that right? 
(already depends on python, postgres, mxDateTime, wxWidgets, wxPython, 
pyPgSQL), mainly because those packages
are essential for the functionality required, whereas other packages 
might provide limited benefits , with the problem of introducing
package bugs. I thought omniPyCORBA was a good package , but I gather 
people aren't keen, because it is a complex package
and without much documentation.


BTW,  could Carlos give me hints about how to use eclipse RCP ? What do 
you need to learn to use it?

Yesterday , I used the eclipse EMF /  GEF   tutorial for making a 
PatientDatabase container, identity objects which contained
identity profiles,  addresses, and telephone numbers with types, and  
identity numbers  with types (medicare, vets ,etc) , which saves to
a file, the root object being PatientDatabase.  Took only a few hours.


I'm guessing  that EMF isn't really for database backed application 
where there's tens of thousands of objects if one has a file based root 
object, but for
say, making a tool that reads postgres meta-schema as objects, and 
letting you make some sort of object graph
, and then having the tool generate some code for you  (perhaps a 
multi-language tool) , and saving the work.

Has Carlos got any ideas how to use RCP for gnumed ?