Re: [Gnumed-devel] Dental software in python

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:15:52AM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:

> Interesting! Main infrastructure differences from GNUmed seem to be
> their use of QT (and PyQT) instead of wxWindows/wxPython for the GUI,
> and their use of SQLObject as the object-relational mapper/interfcae,
> but Python and PostgreSQL are common with GNUmed. They also seem to
> leverage various KDE applications for contact management and email
> rather than trying to replicate those functions in their software.
This is the part I think we should replicate from their model.

> Of course, the really major difference to GNUmed is that the dental
> software is not itself released under an open source license - it just
> uses open source components.
Thanks for that analysis, I haven't had time to look into
that so deeply.

BTW, I haven't yet had time either to evaluate the NetEpi
forms layer for re-use as Syan suggested but will try to do
so within this coming week.

Karsten
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