Re: [Gnumed-devel] developing packs of Consumable substances / medications

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:27:46AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > The key principle for data packs needs to be that they must
> > only provide passive data and not any custom scripts GNUmed
> > needs to run on their behalf.
> 
> Not sure what is meant here, because the data will need to have a way to get 
> into GNUmed.

Yes but we don't really want GNUmed to execute arbitrary
scripts supplied by a data pack if at all avoidable.

> Can the above be restated as:
> 
> no matter the original source, each member of any family
> of data packs (coding systems, medications etc) will need to
> have been transmogrified from its source into a consistent
> data construct (say, an sql file) and

Or at least into a data construct processable by means
already inherent to the GNUmed expected to process it.

> no matter the original source, the import into GNUmed
> shall have to be manageable by running a standard GNUmed
> script "per family of coding packs" so that for example, the
> GNUmed script that would import Canadian medications would
> be the same script as would import German or French
> medications except only for where the script is being
> pointed to?

Something like that, yes. The intent is to reduce security
implications.

Karsten
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