>It would be good to have more specifics here (off-line). Many of the
>prerequisites are available from a subdirectory of the distribution
>location.
I'll give the specifics online Brian as I may be at fault here. Call me
lazy but I don't usually go to subdirectories to look for something I don't
know is there. The Circare implementation guide is great. And as a newbie,
I prefer step by step guides (the implementation seems to be just that).
Yet, I got stumped at step: Prerequisites
http://www.minoru-development.com/circare/implement/impl.html#2_1
since I assumed I would have to download and install each one from the
parent site of the components (which ideally I should). This is because the
enumerated components are linked to the mother sites. Should they be linked
to the subdirectory?
Bottomline: this user (maybe there are more out there like me?) considers
installation success as inversely proportional to the number of components
required. Failure rate increases when one of the component sites become
bogged down for some reason.
Note that these comments are generally about open source application
development and promotions and not about any application in particular. We
should try our best to minimize dependencies (either by integrating them
into one package like RPMs or providing access to multiple sources of the
code).
I am still bent on installing all the projects for comparison (of course,
apples to apples)...
Alvin
>Seriously, I don't think we need to have *one* site with everything on
>it. Not very many people are going to be installing everything.
>TK-Family practice and Freemed are for physician's offices, while
>Circare and Telemed are more for larger organizations. Generally people
>are going to be installing just one of these.
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