Re: [Gnumed-devel] Windows version

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2016, 22:48:10 CEST schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 05:33:29PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > GNUmed currently makes use of many python modules and extensions such as
> > psycopg, twain module, PIL, pywin32, hl7 and many more. It is a pain to
> > make them available on Windows.
> > 
> > I plan to build only two releases. The portable GNUmed client which has
> > everything baked into the executable and stock GNUmed client. For the
> > stock
> > Gnumed client the potential users have to install python, wxpython, PIL
> > and so on all by themselves.
> > 
> > I might be able to get by with some dependencies by making use of
> > Winpython. Winpython seems to ship many modules but not all.
> > 
> > Any thoughts ?
> 
> I wonder whether the "Windows version" could/should be a
> VirtualBox instance running Debian these days ?

Should work. I am not sure about access to peripheral devices such as 
scanners, chipcard readers and so on. Printer will likely work. Scanners on 
the host possibly work over USB or network.