Re: [LUG] I hope an interesting question on real-world systems

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here it fails so far...
Looking at individual parts of it - tcl scripts - I get things like

> ./Asthma_493.0.tcl
bash: ./Asthma_493.0.tcl: bad interpreter: Permission denied


and looking at tclinstall.tcl which I think should take us into the graphical 
part of the setup  gives

akm@xxxxxxx:/usr/local/Tk_familypractice > ./tclinstall.tcl
can't find package Iwidgets
   while executing
"package require Iwidgets"
   (file "./tclinstall.tcl" line 3)

Which I think implicates the layout of the systems being different.

I can run tcl stuff on mine, hello world with goodby button etc, so it isn't 
that.

The system is fairly typical in its evolution - growing in place with pieces 
being added as the need or desire becomes obvious, rather than deriving from 
a waterfall specification and implementation programme or controlled 
iteration.

I feel that people outside the originating practice might contribute in the 
open source tradition to productionising it, and trying out an instal and 
picking out generic changes to the package that make it more likely to 
compile and run on an arbitrary target are probably the first valuable thing 
to add.

My main aim however is to get a copy running so I can hammer it a bit, and 
decide whcih bits of interface are too personal and which are going to be 
usable by others.  Alec'x practice is five partners, whcih will have put a 
brake on some odditification but given the 80:20 rule applies here, not very 
much restriction on what stays in the package.


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