RATIO iX3M DEEP computers compatibility and connection/configuration problem

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Aug 24, 2017, at 7:06 AM, Jef Driesen <jef at libdivecomputer.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-08-23 06:43, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 7:55 AM, Jef Driesen <jef at libdivecomputer.org> wrote:
>>> I don't understand what you gain with those comments. I mean it's just comments. Don't you need this kind of info at runtime instead?
>> Yup - I simply have a tool that parses the source to give me the
>> information that I want.
> 
> Well, that's a pretty ugly and error-prone hack. You hard-code everything in the application, based on whatever version that was used at build time (which may not even be the same as at runtime). But the reason why that table exists, is to let applications populate the list of supported devices dynamically at runtime! And by doing it this way, you also depend on some of the libdivecomputer internals.
> 
> If we're adding this kind of annotations, then I prefer to make this information available through the api. That will be a lot more useful, and may also benefit other applications.

That's ok, I didn't expect you to take the changes, which is why I didn't bother sending them to the libdivecomputer mailing list.
I needed to get something that worked for our use case, and I needed it soon.

/D