[Gnumed-devel] Re: releaseTodo (was roadmap tidying)

[J Busser]

At 3:13 PM +0200 9/14/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  >     * state : collect interested countries from
> >  users to add them in sql files; add default state
> >  for every country (?)
> users did not respond, default state still missing

Ahh... have you assigned one for Germany? For Canada, we can set "BC" :-)

but in terms of how this default will work, will it assert itself 
only at startup (i.e. at first use within client session) or will it 
be asserted for *every* patient created from that installation?

I am thinking that in case someone from anywhere else in Canada 
should install GNUmed, once they override a state default, is it 
useful to simply have this value "remembered" and continue to be the 
value offered for subsequent patients, until it is either changed or 
the client is shut down? (maybe it would mean this would have to be 
kept in memory or a local temporary file? Do we use local temporary 
files and do we have a method to be sure to purge them, for 
security/privacy reasons?