SmartTrak is a Windows based propietary dive log software by Uwatec, which has
been the reference software for every Scubapro/Uwatec IRda based devices,
ranging from Smart to Galileo. It has just been recently that began to be
substituted by newer softwares like LogTrak and JTrak (these only supports
Galileo or newer devices and don't import SmartTrak's .slg files).i
SmartTrak also supports importing dives from older DataTrak software (oldest
Aladin series, serial based DCs) so most divers using Scubapro/Uwatec products
have probably their dives registered in this log, even those who have just moved
to newest Scubapro/Uwatec DCs.
SmartTrak is based in MS Access database with support for recreational and
technical dives up to 10 tanks, trimix (in later versions, prior versions had
support for just 3 tanks with Nitrox) and SCR/CCR.
In Linux, MsAccess databases are supported via libmdb which in turn depends on
libglib2, so this work has a hard dependency on these two libraries.
Libmdb sees very little (or null) development activity today so it can be
considered a mature library, which, in my opinion, makes it independent of
progresses of libglib2, this way, the tool should build on most Linux
distributions, even oldest ones (well, this will actually be false because of
the other dependencies of Subsurface).
Final note: It hasn't been until very recently that libdivecomputer has included
support for some of the data downloaded from Galileo devices, even today
understanding some of these data is WIP (e.g. alarms, are interpreted as
bookmarks at this moment, and there is a lot of noise coming from the
tanks/gases area in libdc)
Signed-off-by: Salvador Cuñat <salvador.cunat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
