DiveBoard and Subsurface

[Miika Turkia]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Kristian,
>
> I hope you don't mind that I added the mailing list and especially our
> XSLT guru back into the conversation...
>
> Kristian Rikvold-Jess <kristije at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I've considering using Subsurface, but I would like to be able to log
>>>> my dives to my Diveboard profile. The only way to get my dives out of
>>>> Subsurface that I've discovered is to save them as an xml. This file
>>>> looks prety easy and clean, but are suported nowhere. I've mailed with
>>>> the Diveboard team, and they say the format is not standard or stable,
>>>> and therefor are not willing to support it. They say you are working
>>>> on an conector directly to their API though.
>>>>
>>>> Two questions therefor arise, is the conector soon arriving? And will
>>>> you make a export option to a standard export format?
>>>
>>> I can't help you with the second part - it's our format. It has
>>> developed over time as our needs changed and will continue to do
>>> so. Whether or not a third party application will support this or not is
>>> outside of our control.
>>
>> Well, suporting a standard stable format is within you controll. I do
>> understand if third party applications will not support a non stable
>> format.
>
> (having played with a bunch of dive log software I'd argue that our
> format is much easier to parse and certainly no less stable than the
> formats of other divelog software - we just appear to have a slightly
> faster development trajectory as some of them do...)
>
>> But it makes it hard to move dives. Adding an option to export
>> to DAN D7 or Suunto SDE format, for example, and continue to use your
>> own format internaly would serve both needs.
>
> That's a very good point.
>
> Miika, how hard would it be to add UDDF export... you already did the
> DLD export for the divelogs.de integration and that looked reasonably
> straight forward - would the same be true for UDDF?

It is actually quite a bit more complicated than DLD. There are a
couple of cotchas like references to gas mixture and buddy tables. My
guess is that it is just a straight reference but we'll see... But
basic support for the most important stuff should not take too long
once I get to it.

miika