Fwd: Re: Mares Dive Organiser import

[Willem Ferguson]

Any initial conversion will have to be in Win and one would want to do 
as little as possible in Win, remote from subsurface. The Dive Organiser 
holds quite a lot of info for each dive. I have the support of my son 
who is a Win software architect. A stand-alone Win app converting to 
subsurface XML would be ideal but it would result in fragmentation of 
software around subsurface itself.  I suspect the text-based formats 
(XML or CSV) are probably the simplest to communicate between Linux, 
Win, Mac. I am looking at this because I believe that such an import 
facility would really promote migration to subsurface.
Magician Hohnel, any opinion about a viable route?
willemf

On 04/12/2013 14:08, Miika Turkia wrote:
> If you are writing a converter, you probably should just write 
> subsurface XML directly (of course any already supported import format 
> works as well). On the other hand, it is also possible to write the 
> support directly to Subsurface as was done with Suunto DM4 (sqlite 
> database). However, as far as I know the DB support is only available 
> on Windows.
>
> miika
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Willem Ferguson 
> <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za 
> <mailto:willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>> wrote:
>
>     There are ways to open the Mares Dive Organiser database. It
>     comprises a table with depth measurements (i.e. representing the
>     dive profiles) all dives in one table, as well as few other
>     smaller tables that represent information applicable to a whole
>     dive (e.g. and NB: gas mixture, cylinder volume etc). A neat (if
>     unclean) relational data setup. What is the easiest format to
>     shape these data into for easy import into subsurface?
>     Kind regards,
>     willemf
>
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