On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Joseph Puthooran wrote:

4. If this sharing takes place, the Open Source community could

work on fixing these issues and in course of time OpenVistA

could be as bug free as the Unix/Cache version used at the VA.

Possibly better.


I'm sure that you know one of the main reasons for the existence of the VistA Kernel is encapsulating platform dependencies and providing a more or less uniform system interface to VistA applications. It is true that there have been updates to the Kernel to support GT.M, but as you can imagine, they have received neither the level of use or sheer number of hours of developer input as have the code supporting implementations the VA actually uses. I do not mean to disparage in any way the efforts of the developers who have added GT.M support to Kernel, but you do need to keep in mind that many talented developers have been working on Kernel over the years, and adding GT.M support to the VistA Kernel is actually quite a new thing, with a relatively small installed base, to boot 9so to speak).

Gregory Woodhouse

Metaphors be with you.


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