new file formats for import

[Miika Turkia]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:14 AM, Rainer Mohr wrote:
>
>> (Repost, forgot the mailing list)
>>
>> On 08.03.2013 09:40, Miika Turkia wrote:
>>>> Dirk Wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I like the idea of pointing people to divelogs.de as a way to convert
>>>>> files.
>>>>> Maybe we could come up with an API that would allow even tighter
>>>>> integration of
>>>>> Subsurface and divelogs.de? Basically a way to simply synchronize the data
>>>>> that
>>>>> is maintained locally and in "the cloud" (i.e., divelogs.de)?
>>>>> Diveboard.com offers something like that.
>>>>>
>>> I think Dirk was hoping for the help in parsing the OceanLog and
>>> getting back understandable logs. So we would be uploading the MS
>>> Access DB (or the .txt?) and receiving a nicely parsed DLD back. Or we
>>> could be uploading some other divelog formats we do not support
>>> ourselves for parsing.
>
> No - I don't think that Rainer runs a file conversion service.
> He runs an online divelog, just like we do a standalone divelog.
>
>> Well, then I completely misunderstood Dirk's Posting above…
>
> No, Rainer, you didn't. That was exactly what I was proposing. Tight
> integration that helps both sides. Not a file conversion service :-)

I have to agree that my previous thinking (or actually lack of it)
didn't make sense at all. Integrating with the existing API sounds
like the way to go.

miika