On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 12:53:42PM +0000, JB2Cool wrote:
> > On 9 February 2016 at 12:48, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A possible project I could mentor in the summer would be a mobile
> > > version of
> > > > the planner (if nobody vetos it). That would be a separate app from
> > > > subsurface-mobile but of course share a lot of code.
>
> This is open source. No one can veto what you want to do.
>
> > So don't implement the dive planning into the subsurface-mobile just yet
> > but does this really justify the creation of another companion app to
> > perform the dive planning? That'll then be 3 mobile subsurface apps we
> > have, surely better to restrict the number of them and eventually (Even
> if
> > it's a while out) merge the functionality into a single app.
>
> The companion app goes away. Subsurface-mobile replaces that (even though
> that part of the functionality definitely needs a lot more testing). But
> no, this would get us Subsurface-mobile and Subsurface-planner.
>
> And while I would hate to see people spend time on the latter I can't stop
> you. My guess is that Sebastian and I won't be contributing there, so
> you'll be a bit on your own for now, but that's how it goes if you want to
> do something that isn't really useful for the goals of the project (as
> laid out by the humble maintainer).
>

A separate Subsurface-planner would be nice as well.  Maybe something
simple, with just table based input and output, utilizing the powerful deco
planner core that we have.   Many would appreciate an open source
alternative to expensive and slightly awkward software like Multideco and
Baltic deco planner.

Henrik
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