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There are two good reasons for this change. First of all, it makes the Predator data format more consistent with the Petrel data format, which also has the final block appended to each dive. But even more important is that we might actually need the information stored in the final block someday. The final block contains important information about the device, such as the firmware and logbook version. Right now this information is simply lost after the download. But if the data format ever changes to support some new feature, we'll likely need that information to autodetect the correct format. Unfortunately this also changes the dive format in a non-backwards compatible way. However, to minimize the inconvenience, the legacy format (without the extra final block) remains supported in the parser.
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdivecomputer-devel or contact me directly: jefdriesen@hotmail.com License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.