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authorGravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-09-22 15:20:26 -0700
committerGravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-09-22 15:20:26 -0700
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Update the README a bit
Update for the current library situation, and notes about libdivecomputer installation location. And remove the "we don't interface directly with libdivecomputer", since that is obviously not true any more. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ I'm tired of java programs that don't work etc.
License: GPLv2
-You need libxml2-devel, gtk2-devel and GConf2-devel to build this.
+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 also need to have libdivecomputer installed, which goes something like this:
@@ -15,6 +17,14 @@ You also need to have libdivecomputer installed, which goes something like this:
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.
+
+Just edit the makefile directly. autoconf and friends are the devil's
+tools.
+
Usage:
make
@@ -39,22 +49,22 @@ Manager, so they don't trigger the "exact duplicates" match.
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
+ 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.
+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
+ 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
@@ -65,11 +75,6 @@ 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.
-Also, I don't actually integrate directly with libdivecomputer, I just
-read the XML files it can spit out. But I included my own raw dive
-profile xml files for anybody who isn't a diver, but decides that they
-want to educate me in gtk.
-
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