Re: [Gnumed-devel] Data packs

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:53:44AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I am working on refactoring the freely-available HC DPD (Canadian) data into 
> GNUmed.

Nice !

> I should maybe not be surprised at the number of steps required to get this 
> stuff right!

Indeed.

> When I am further through it, I expect I will have a mix
> of some shell commands and sql

Indeed, this is to be expected.

Note that for an actual data pack you'll need to package the
data in a format such that GNUmed can unpack the .zip file
and run a single install-data-pack.sql script from the
content.

IOW, the final data pack can only contain SQL commands.

> and I will wonder whether (if
> it is desirable to have such installations logged in GNUmed)
> there could be a skeletal script or script set (shell /
> python / sql) made available, and which can help to achieve
> the desired consistency by, say, allowing pack-specific code
> to be inserted?

Each data pack is going to be ever so little different that
it is likely going to *just* about make sense to rewrite it
:-(  (except for, say, successive versions of the same data
source).

Nonetheless, having access to the preparation framework for
a working data pack will make it easier for other providers
to know what's involved.

Karsten
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