Gsoc 2014 ideas

[Jef Driesen]

Hi,

For the "Ability to Configure Dive Computers" idea, one of the 
prerequisites is access to a supported dive computer. I think you can 
easily drop this requirement. The most likely target dive computer for 
this feature is the Heinrichs-Weikamp OSTC. It's open source, the 
available settings are fully documented, and modifying them is already 
supported by libdivecomputer. But reading and writing the OSTC EEPROM 
(which is where the settings are stored) is also supported by the 
libdivecomputer simulator. That means you can test your code without 
needing an OSTC at all. Even firmware updates can be simulated! Dropping 
this requirement will probably make it easier to find a student that can 
work on this :-)

Of course I'm also happy to assist a student with the libdivecomputer 
related parts of this idea.

If the Gsoc ideas are not restricted to subsurface, but can be extended 
into libdivecomputer territory, then I may have another suggestion: 
integrate the subsurface Uemis code in libdivecomputer.

Jef