J.
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
I think if we can better define the problem, that one of us, and I will do it if everyone would like that, can post the particulars on one of the wine mailing lists that I found yesterday. There are some real experts on those lists, just like on this list, but I don't know enough to ask a proper question yet. Maybe at the meeting we can get this better defined and then post something.
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:49 am, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
Update:
Thanks to William Wong's suggestion Nancy tested the Reports Tab....it was late and it was the only tab we didn't try. When you do try to use it you get an OLE error....after that the other tabs still work on my system but the File, Edit, etc. pull down menus stop working. It would be terrific and very helpful if others could "test" this Linux client alternative and report back on the errors they are getting.
The better we can describe the errors etc. the easier it will be to put in a request to Codweavers to get an estimate for addressing the problem or to seek help from other forums. What I can commit to is finding the resources to overcome the last few hurdles...as Nancy said porting CPRS to Linux will help make the number of potential VistA adopters and contributors mushroom exponentially...this is a critical success factor to long term viability outside of the VA....whether you are a vendor or a user.
Joseph
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
I just want to add a few specifics about how this was done so that it can be reproduced. We used Debian Sarge upgraded just before we tried this, the VA Demo on GTM and CPRSChart.exe version 1.0.23.15 with the 3-10-2005 version of Wine. I ran it with the following command:
wine /home/nancy/CPRSChart.exe s=127.0.0.1 p=9200
The only thing I have to do is hit OK to allow it to install the Mozilla plugin when it asks.
As Joseph said, we have been waiting for this and hoping for this for a long time and I think it is a major breakthrough. This translates to a potential for major savings for developing countries as well as State side users and I want to send the Wine developers, the VA programmers, the Linux, GT.M, Mozilla and so many other folks involved a huge THANK YOU for making this possible!
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:51 pm, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
Nancy and I gave CPRS under Wine (latest Wine release on a Debian client) a try with her Linux based VistA server (it's running the VA Demo software) and it worked without a hitch....in fact it ran better on her Debian machine than my Mandrake client. There is something wacky about Wine on Mandrake 10.1.....it seems that some config files or libraries are missing in the Mandrake Wine RPM. They get installed with Crossover Office but not with the Wine RPM. Good old Debian apt makes sure all the stray bits and pieces get installed....I think I am becoming a Debian convert. As an aside I have noticed that the Mandrake distribution while an excellent product has become much more of a pain for both finding and installing packages that are not on the CD's and many packages are dropped entirely or partially too boot from version to version.
So it looks like the Wine folks without knowing it have done the work over the past few releases to make CPRS viable on Linux....this is indeed a milestone and shows the real power of open source communities at work....in this case it was simply the act of making Wine a better product that made it possible to run CPRS with it.
Joseph
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