> There has been conversation between me Steven G. (LinuDent) > and Alex (TkFP) from the beginning of the tcl/tk version of > LinuDent. LinuDent borrows most of it's structure and much code > from TkFP. This is good news which I didn't know. I am very impressed with Dr. Caldwell's work. TkFP, Vista and AccessGP are those open projects that can really claim to have accomplished something in the real world.
> 1. LinuDent is meant to be lightweight - only a few megs to download I am now 3 Megs into a download of TkFP and I guess anything up to 10-15 MB might be acceptable anyways ? > 3. Linudent base install will not need a database setup - > (newbies and not-so-newbies sometimes have difficulty setting > up sql database engines for the first time ;-)) While being easy to use for newbies is a very laudable goal isn't this requirement a hindrance sometimes ? I mean, being able to function without a database is probably a good thing for evaluation purposes but what about the long run ? Shouldn't setting up the thing be the task of someone skilled in the business (maybe the skilled user, maybe a professional). > I am quite open to changing LinuDent so that more people could use it with > two provisos: > 1. I would continue to use tcl/tk. (There is a object oriented extension call > itcl, which is included in tclkit) I meant to say: OO by design not by extension (and no, besides harbouring other evils, Perl 5 doesn't qualify in this regard, either; Python does, Ruby does from what I hear, and of course a bunch of "real" languages such as Java, C++ and Eiffel do). > 2. I would not have a browser based interface to start with. Ah, good :-) Makes for a warm fuzzy feeling. I invite anyone who argues in favour of web frontends to come sit in with me on a busy round of seeing patients using my current commercial system. Afterwards they'll think afresh how the needed convenience can be delivered over HTTP. Regards, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
