Updated the README file for 2.1

This clearly hadn't been edited in more than a year and was way outdated. I
tried to make it useful and informative :-)

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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Half-arsed divelog software in C.
Subsurface - an Open Source Divelog
===================================
I'm tired of Java programs that don't work etc.
In fall of 2011, when a forced lull in kernel development gave him an
opportunity to start on a new endeavor, Linus Torvalds decided to tackle
his frustration with the lack of decent divelog software on Linux.
Subsurface is the result of the work of him and a team of developers
since then.
License: GPLv2
You need libxml2-devel, gtk2-devel, glib-2.0 and GConf2-devel to build
Subsurface can be found at http://subsurface.hohndel.org
You can get the latest sources from the git repository:
git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git .
or
git clone http://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git .
You can also browse the sources via gitweb.
Building subsurface under Linux
-------------------------------
You need libxml2-devel, gtk2-devel, glib-2.0 and gconf2-devel to build
this (and libusb-1.0 if you have libdivecomputer built with it, but then
you obviously already have it installed)
you obviously already have it installed). Check with your Linux
distribution how to install these packages.
On Debian the package names are different; try libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev
glib-2.0 libgconf2-dev, but it seems the cairo package at least in
Squeeze is too old.
You also need to have libdivecomputer installed, which goes something like this:
git clone git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
cd libdivecomputer
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
sudo make install
git clone \
git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
cd libdivecomputer
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
sudo make install
NOTE! You may need to tell the main Makefile where you installed
libdivecomputer if you didn't do it in the default /usr/local location.
I don't trust pkg-config for libdivecomputer, since pkg-config usually
doesn't work unless the project has been installed by the distro.
NOTE! Sometimes you may need to tell the main Subsurface Makefile where
you installed libdivecomputer; pkg-config for libdivecomputer doesn't
always work unless the project has been installed by the distro.
Just edit the makefile directly.
Building Subsurface under Windows
---------------------------------
Subsurface builds nicely with MinGW the official builds are done as
cross builds under Linux (currently on Fedora 17). A shell script to do
that (plus the .nsi file to create the installer with makensis) are
included in the packaging/Windows directory.
The best way to get libdivecomputer to build appears to be
mingw32-configure
mingw32-make
sudo mingw32-make install
Jef Driesen, the developer behind libdivecomputer, provided his build
instructions on Windows (which are different from what I use):
./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --prefix=$HOME/local
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR='/opt/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/pkgconfig'
make
make install
These use different paths than what I get on Fedora. To do this the way
Jef does I would need
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR='/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig'
Either way, once you have built libdivecomputer you can use sh
packaging/Windows/mingw-make.sh to then build subsurface.
Building subsurface on a Mac
Provided by Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
Install MacPorts and install the dependencies from MacPorts:
sudo port install gtk2 +no_x11 +quartz -x11 libusb gtk-osx-application \
automake autoconf libtool
Install libdivecomputer:
git clone git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
cd libdivecomputer
autoreconf --install
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include ./configure
make
sudo make install
Install subsurface:
git clone git://subsurface.hohndel.org/subsurface.git
cd subsurface
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/" make
sudo make install-macosx
Just edit the makefile directly. autoconf and friends are the devil's
tools.
Usage:
------
make
./subsurface dives/*.xml
Install and start from the desktop (or you can run it locally from the
build directory).
to see my dives (with no notes or commentary).
./subsurface
Or, if you have a dive computer supported by libdivecomputer, you can
just do
You can give a data file as command line argument, or Subsurface picks a
default file for you when started from the desktop or with out an
argument.
make
./subsurface
and select "Import" from the Log menu, tell it what dive computer you
have (and where it is connected if you need to), and hit "OK".
If you have a dive computer supported by libdivecomputer, you can just
select "Download from Divecomputer" from the Log menu, tell it what dive
computer you have (and where it is connected if you need to), and hit
"OK".
NOTE! There are often multiple models of dive computers that import
exactly the same way. If you have a Suunto Gekko, for example, the
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* Cobalt
Implementation details:
main.c - program frame
dive.c - creates and maintaines the internal dive list structure
libdivecomputer.c
uemis.c
parse-xml.c
save-xml.c - interface with dive computers and the XML files
profile.c - creates the data for the profile and draws it using cairo
A first UI has been implemented in gtk and an attempt has been made to
separate program logic from UI implementation.
gtk-gui.c - overall layout, main window of the UI
divelist.c - list of dives subsurface maintains
equipment.c - equipment / tank information for each dive
info.c - detailed dive info
print.c - printing
WARNING! I wasn't kidding when I said that I've done this by reading
gtk2 tutorials as I've gone along. If somebody is more comfortable with
gtk, feel free to send me (signed-off) patches.
Just as an example of the extreme hackiness of the code, I don't even
bother connecting a signal for the "somebody edited the dive info"
cases. I just save/restore the dive info every single time you switch
dives. Christ! That's truly lame.
NOTE! Some of the dives are pretty pitiful. All the last dives are from
my divemaster course, so they are from following open water students
along (many of them the confined*water dives). There a lot of the
action is at the surface, so some of the "dives" are 4ft deep and 2min
long.
Contributing:
-------------
Please either send me signed-off patches or a pull request with
signed-off commits. If you don't sign off on them, I will not accept
them. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name <email>"
at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have
the right to pass it on as an open source patch.
There is a mailing list for developers: subsurface@hohndel.org
Go to http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
to subscribe.
If you want to contribute code, please either send signed-off patches or
a pull request with signed-off commits. If you don't sign off on them,
we will not accept them. This means adding a line that says
"Signed-off-by: Name <email>" at the end of each commit, indicating that
you wrote the code and have the right to pass it on as an open source
patch.
See: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html