I just realized that we don't want ANY of the percent routines anyway, so pretend I didn't say that! They need to be made out of the Z routines that are appropriate for the code - i.e., Cache, GTM, etc.
On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:55 am, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > The Cache.dat is the full set of routines and globals to be used in Cache > and usually works fine if you follow the instructions on Hardhats, although > those instructions often get updated as new FOIA releases have new wrinkles > to iron out. > > The process of porting this to GTM is not seamless, and the exported > Routines and Globals are just the starting point. If I am not mistaken, > the GTM routines this time seem to be lacking the % routines, but I am > about to export those so they should be available shortly if you would like > them. These routines may not be there deliberately as they often need work > before the GTM version will function properly and replacing them from a > version of VistA that already works with GTM is sometimes the answer. > Assuming that that is the answer without further investigation is not a > great idea, however. > > These routines and globals have to be imported and the routines have to > have dos2unix or something similar run on them before they are imported. > Thereafter comes the job of completing some of the same procedures that are > on the Hardhats web site and making the changes needed as problems are > encountered. I sometimes do the easy stuff, but the experts are needed to > figure out the rest, so I would not recommend it for someone new to this. > > After this initial work comes the testing. There is often version specific > code that will cause compile errors, but since the errors are in code for > some other version of M, it often doesn't matter, but again, the experts > are going to be the ones that will know this. > > In addition to this, there are other things the experts do to make those > OpenVistA releases you find in VivA and SemiVivA on Sourceforge and the > original HUI release that I am not even aware of. The coding sessions in > Seattle a few months ago (not the main meeting that was held there, but a > small meeting at Rick Marshall's house) and the one in North Carolina that > is planned for September are where just the experts get together and try to > hash this stuff out. ( I strongly recommend that those of us that are not > experts stay away from those meeting as we will only get in the way. ) One > of the things the experts are promising to do this time is to document > everything they do to make this process easier in the future. I suspect > they really will do it this time as they are sick of hearing the rest of us > bug them about it, and in addition, even they want to know what some of > their crew did that they didn't know about. > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 08:37 am, Mike Lieman wrote: > > On 8/28/05, Mike Lieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a formal procedure for porting the Cache.dat into something > > > that GT.M handles? Or don't I have the concepts right? > > > > I don't, do I? > > > > Are CACHE.zip and VistA-GTM-UNIX-ZTMGRSET-ready.zip equivalent? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > > Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * > > Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > ------------------------------------------------------- -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
