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@@ -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git version, this file +is not tracked as actively as might be desirable, so some of the +information here may be outdated.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. |