DiveLab [was Re: Subject: Re: struct dive_table dive_table and a wider view]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:26 AM, Alex Deas wrote:
> Caveats: We have not been involved in Open Source previously,

That appears rather obvious. I would suggest that you read 
up a little on mailing list behavior, for example. Top posting
and quoting a complete 7 email digest, retaining the old
subject line but changing the topic is a great way to get
people really mad at you, really fast.

Coming in showing blatant lack of understanding for what
we do and how we do it and who we do it for is another.

> So any comments on what we are proposing to do with the UDDF parser to start with, and then SQL-Lite, would be most welcome so we can get the objectives and spec clear, than we are happy the work is defined, we can contribute a person or two do those things. 
>  

UDDF is a sad side story for us. It's an over engineered 
ridiculous abomination and not something we are interested
in spending time on. We have some limited support for it out
of concern for interoperability but that's about it.

Moving to an SQL style database will not happen. End of
story.

And reading and commenting on a PDF that someone I have
never heard of before posts on some server that contains a
discussion of a data format I have no interest in. Please hold
your breath while I am doing that and until I respond. Please 
do. Really

Feel free to fork Subsurface. But please pay close attention
to the license under which it is released and the requirements
that this license puts on any derived work.

Good luck

/D