Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: QRISK2

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 09:12:05AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > I typed 
> > 
> >   svn  http://svn.clinrisk.co.uk/opensource/qrisk2/ 
> > 
> > at a command prompt, moved into the directory which resulted, made the
> > executables as above and then ran one.
> 
> So this is the same as I can confirm.
> 
> I also noticed that a library libirisk.a is builded.  My assumption is
> that the executables just use this library.  I wonder whether it makes
> sense to build an interface to this library from GNUmed instead of
> calling the exeutables.

Python cannot directly call C libraries except with the
ctypes extension.

I have nearly no experience whatsoever with this type of
thing so it won't happen.

> Your assumption seems to be in line with my suggestion to build a GNUmed
> interface to the library (or the command line executables - whatever
> seems to be more easy to implement / reliable).

Absolutely, that's more like it.

That's why I was wanting a package :-)   So that we can
install it and interface it.

Karsten
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