Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed plugin development - part 4

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:34:06PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> Paper is great but we need code to make it appear on screen. At this stage 
> the 
> vision has not yet fully developed. Different from what traditional IT/IS 
> university taught specialists might want to do now I will develop and reshape 
> the code instead of defining detailed specs first.
> 
> This is the medical approach. I could try to learn tools like UML to model 
> the 
> plugin with the added benefit of using sophisticated tools to produce code 
> from the model

That would be overkill for this sort of thing (the
complexity is way too low, better to have a simple writeup
of what it is supposed to do somewhere and a mock GUI on
paper) and would require potential contributors to also have
the toolchain.

Best practices like consistent naming, comments,
self-commenting code, and separation of concerns go a long
way in making code maintainable.

> Heading over to wiki.gnumed.de in the Dowload section I am presented with the 
> option to either download a snapshot package or get a copy of the CVS tree. 
> SInce I will probably need to get updates often I will go for the CVS option.

That way you'll learn of evolving (other) parts of the code
as soon as needed.

Karsten
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