[PATCH] Added support for parsing temperature in the dive header

[Jef Driesen]

On 04-09-14 00:07, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Here's what I learned from your response:
>
> - MacDive, just like Subsurface, ended up implementing custom parsers for
>    information that isn't extracted by libdivecomputer.

Almost right. The original reason is a bit different. Macdive is a few years 
older than subsurface, and started around the same time as libdivecomputer 
itself. At that time the libdivecomputer parser was pretty much non-existing or 
at least even more basic than it is now (e.g. sample data only). So writing a 
custom parser was basically the only option. Nowadays the libdivecomputer has 
much improved (although their is certainly room for improvement!) and while Nick 
and I discussed switching to the libdivecomputer parsers more than once, that 
just didn't happen yet. It works, and there have been always some more urgent 
things on the todo list :-)

We're mostly in sync, but sometimes we have minor differences (or different bugs 
if you prefer :-)) here or there.

> - MacDive, just like Subsurface, would prefer to get such data from
>    libdivecomputer, as long as it is easy to tell if the data is available
>    or not - so no made up, interpolated or otherwise fabricated data.
>    Either an indication "the data aren't available", or actual data from
>    the dive computer.

It's hard to disagree with that!

Jef