Subsurface 4.7 / 5.0

[Anton Lundin]

On 20 January, 2017 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:06:40PM +0100, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> > 
> > Other option is to try to make next Subsurface the Subsurface 4.7:
> > 
> > Continue duplicating code for the Mobile version (that has a small userbase
> > but will probabbly gain an increase of usage over the years) and cleaning /
> > improving the Desktop version, changing things on the core as little as we
> > need.
> 
> Or, how about option 3:
> 
> Forget about Subsurface-mobile. Wait a year for Kirigmi 7 that uses QML3
> and and Qt.Slow.Conniptions.4 and then revisit if we want to waste another
> year of our time on something that more or less no one is interested in
> using.
> 

I'm still tempted to revive the branch where I bult subsurface-core as a
library with jni wrappers and build a UI in Android native java.

There are enough competence and tutorials out there so almost anyone can
hack on a Android java app, and the "core" parts of subsurface, we
already know.

> Instead, work on fixing the things in Subsurface that are broken,
> incomplete, or missing. Divesite handling. Statistics. Etc. And add things
> that matter to people, like support for Bluetooth LE which we will need
> for a number of new dive computers, starting with the Shearwater Perdix AI
> that I should receive today and which you can only talk to via BTLE.
> 

Awesome!

As far as I've understood, the actual protocol is the same (or at least,
the Perdix AI supports the Petrel protocol), its just the transport
thats different.

Would be interesting to try to get the AI-data out of it to.

//Anton

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