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Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Sep 14 10:25:08 PDT 2012


Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <henrik at synth.no> writes:

> Den 14.09.12 17:06, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
>> These are all the same "feature". When Linus implemented the Open
>> function he implemented it as "add to the existing data file".
>>
>> I think at this point this makes no sense and we should have "Open" and
>> "Import" as two distinct operations with different semantics.
>
> I seriously disagree. 

You disagree with Linus and agree with me. Just to make sure that's
understood :-)

> "Open" should open a new set of dives (closing/discarding the current
> ones), while "Import" should add dives to the current open set.  This
> way we both support switching between sets of wife/tec/rec dives, and
> importing dives from external sources (computer, xml file, another
> dive program) into our current list of dives.

Yes, I think so, too.

/D


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