[Health-dev] Future Vanilla Installation

[Gerald Wiese]

Hi again,

for upcoming 5.0 Luis and me were discussing a new approach for vanilla 
installation to be synchronized with Ansible.

I already started to work on it here:

https://gnuhealth.codeberg.page/futurepages/his/techguide/installation/future_vanilla.html

Aiming for a comparable state across the different operating systems and 
installation methods. And commands very easy to just copy/paste.

Feedback on this would be very appreciated!


In the near future I would like to:

- Write sections for GNU Health, uWSGI & Nginx comparable to the 
detailed ones for PostgreSQL on top

- Synchronize in Ansible already to get tested in our university before 
5.0 release

- Migrate all setup.py to pyproject.toml and Poetry for pip 
installation, but of course only testpypi 4.9 as preparation for 
official 5.0


One open discussion was stable releases vs. rolling releases:

Stable are Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE Leap & FreeBSD. I vote for putting 
rolling releases on desktop systems in a separate chapter. Void & PureOS 
are sympathic projects but I would prefer to have a reduced number of OS 
on server versions only and in a very stable manner. For those stable 
ones I could synchronize Ansible & Vanilla and I could imagine to 
maintain it even after leaving our university next April.


Best

Gerald