> libgit,... well I'm not really into the subsurface code, but I never > understood why you introduced that as a storage backend. > Even the most prolific divers I know don't have more then 30k-50k > dives, and usually these people stopped logging there day to day dives > decades ago. > Using a plain XML file or poor-man's DB like sqlite should be more than > enough ... plus it would have the advantage that one can actually > manually edit/parse the log without big problems. > I had a few cases where I manually needed to merge dives and realign > their timestamps... too rarely to write a proper code for handling such > cases, but simple to script with a backend like XML.
Christoph may have a point, here, indeed. I'm not a diver. For the record, I jumped in this thread because subsurface is/was team-maintained in Debian by a team historically named "pkg-running", which actually tries to deal with packaging of sports-related end-user applications. I'm a runner and, indeed I use similar software to track down my runs and trainings. I run daily, which means I have thousands of recorded trainings after 10 years of practice. And, well, the software I'm using does actually use SQLite for storing its data, and is perfectly fine with that. For sure, I well understand that redisigning Subsurface to use a different storage backend is not something one can reasonably consider but maybe having this as an option could be nice. Of course, that requires someone to do the work and "patches welcomed" answers are perfectly fine. Whatever future happens, I use this opportunity to thank all contributors in this mini thread for their politeness despite the diverging opinions....and also send a mini apology for having been kinda rude....I do share Christoph's feeling about the "raison d'être" of distros and, well, I'm never happy when this is not well understood....
