Limited support for Suunto DM4

[Amit Chaudhuri]

The main dive table is a mess of BLOBs and other types.  The general
recommendation is to put the (variable length) BLOBS at the end of the
table definitions.  Apparently that stands for both sqlite3 & the
forthcoming 4.

Hmm. Can't parse my own DM4.db.bak output file back into subsurface....

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Linus Torvalds <
torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Their own format with the profile, temperature and pressure blobs in
> >> base64 encoded binary blob. I have one sample attached. SOB if you
> >> want to include that.
> >
> > I do. This makes my eyes bleed.
>
> That really is very lovely. XML with some odd binary data encoded as
> base64. And all the interesting stuff is in that blob, making the XML
> part totally pointless.
>
> > Linus - what's in the water in Finland? The Suunto guys clearly are
> > suffering from some serious degenerative brain issue... or they decided
> > to use our heroes from Switzerland as their design idols, the current
> > title holders for absolute heights of moronocity in file formats...
>
> I do think we have a new winner. Finland! Finland! Finland!
>
>                 Linus
>
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