Re: [Gnumed-devel] Simplifying user updates (from tarballs)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:16:32PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> I am using GNUmed without the luxury of OS-specific releases and in case the 
> approach that I follow is of any use to anybody I thought I would post it.
> 
> For my own needs, I download all new official release tarballs into the user 
> account default /Downloads folder to keep things simple and consistent. I 
> then need to
>
> 1) replace its config file with a copy of what I had been previously using

Why would that be ?

> (which will break if the requirements of the config file change, but 
> hopefully such changes will have been announced).
>
> 2) replace the wxGlade panel in which the field order for new patient 
> addresses is specified, because in Canada I am often inputting
> 
>       Unit    Number
>       Street
>       City Province
>       Postal
> 
> 3) also remove any already-compiled .pyc file in case it had been already 
> built from the default panel

As long as the timestamp of the (your) .py file is newer
than the .pyc file Python will auto-recompile on the next
run. Which you can achieve by

        $> touch your-python-file.py

> 4) I need to perform this in each of two copies, one in my
> laptop's main user account, and another in a second account
> more suited to my hospital environment, so I keep copies of
> the above files in the top level of the Shared
> account/directory where all may read/write and I then run
> the following from the command line, after replacing (for
> example)
>
>       1.1.6 with 1.1.7
> 
> cd ~/Downloads/
> wget http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/1.1/gnumed-client.1.1.7.tgz
> tar xf gnumed-client.1.1.7.tgz
> cd ~/Downloads/gnumed-client.1.1.7/client
> cp /Users/Shared/gm-from-vcs.conf .
> rm ./wxGladeWidgets/wxgNewPatientEAPnl.pyc
> cp /Users/Shared/wxgNewPatientEAPnl.py ./wxGladeWidgets

You may want to write a little bash script taking "1.1.7" as
its parameter ?

Karsten
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