Some changes to the README file

This is not getting us ready for 3.0, it mostly fixes some of the obvious
errors in there that were correct for Subsurface 2.1 but clearly are no
longer true (like the suggestion to specifically check out libdivecomputer
0.2.0).

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index bd96b29e9..7b3d35236 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,29 +1,24 @@
 Subsurface - an Open Source Divelog
 ===================================
 
-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. It now supports Linux, Windows and MacOS and allows data import from
-a large number of dive computers and several existing divelog programs. It
-provides advanced visualization of the key information provided by a
-modern dive computer and allows the user to track a wide variety of data
-about their diving.
-
-Subsurface is able to track multi-tank dives with air, Nitrox or TriMix,
-weights and exposure protection used, dive masters and dive buddies and
-allows the user to rate dives and provide additional dive notes. It
-calculates a wide variety of statistics of the user's diving and
-calculates and tracks information like SAC rate or OTU.
+Subsurface is able to track multi-tank dives with air, Nitrox or
+TriMix. It keeps track of equipment like weights and exposure
+protection used, tracks the dice locations (if available including GPS
+fixes), dive masters and dive buddies and allows the user to rate
+dives and provide additional dive notes. It calculates a wide variety
+of statistics of the user's diving and calculates and tracks
+information like SAC rate, partial pressures of O2, N2 and H2,
+calculated deco information, and many more.
 
 Subsurface allows the user to print out a detailed log book including dive
 profiles and other relevant information. The program is localized in about
-a dozen languages and well supported by an active developer community. In
-fall of 2012 Dirk Hohndel has taken over as Subsurface maintainer.
+a dozen languages and well supported by an active developer community.
+
+You are reading the README file of the latest git version, this file
+is not tracked as actively as might be desirable, so some of the
+information here may be outdated.
 
-The latest version is Subsurface 2.1, released in October of 2012.
+The latest public version is Subsurface 2.1, released in October of 2012.
 
 License: GPLv2
 
@@ -42,22 +37,24 @@ 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). Check with your Linux
+You need libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel, gtk2-devel, glib-2.0,
+gconf2-devel, libssl-devel, libsoup-devel to build this (and
+libusb-1.0 if you have libdivecomputer built with it, but then 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
 libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libssl-dev libsoup2.4-dev, but it seems
 the cairo package at least in Squeeze is too old.
 
-You also need to have libdivecomputer version 0.2 installed, which goes
-something like this:
+You also need to have libdivecomputer installed. The current git
+versions of Subsurface assume that you use libdivecomputer version
+0.3, which goes something like this:
 
 git clone \
 git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer
 cd libdivecomputer
-git checkout v0.2.0
+git checkout v0.3.0
 autoreconf --install
 ./configure
 make
@@ -252,3 +249,17 @@ CREDITS:
 This file was originally started by Linus.
 The initial instructions for building on a Mac were provided by Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
 Jef Driessen helped creating the cross-building instructions for Windows
+
+A bit of Subsurface history:
+----------------------------
+
+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. It now supports Linux, Windows and MacOS and allows data import from
+a large number of dive computers and several existing divelog programs. It
+provides advanced visualization of the key information provided by a
+modern dive computer and allows the user to track a wide variety of data
+about their diving.