On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:44:02 PM UTC+1, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
I've heard from one user also that the Vega driver can also be used for reading IGC files and writing tasks

Impossible. The Vega is not a logger. Its protocol cannot be used for any of that.

Why not implement the driver according to the protocol documentation without any workarounds and assuming no bugs.

Because ClearNav refuses to cooperate with us, that's why. There will not be a ClearNav driver in XCSoar because nobody will write it.

I clearly don't see the problem here, besides ClearNav missing the point of being an open vendor.

Why would they care? They would care if it turns out to be important for their (potential) customers. What you wrote makes people think openness doesn't matter, because, uh, you wrote that it will likely work anyway, and if not, we will disable some workarounds, and then it may work (or not?), yadda yadda. But it will not work, and nobody will figure it out. What you wrote is misleading and only distracts from the real problem. You make it worse, because your post seems to approve ClearNav's behaviour, instead of explaining why openness matters.

I admit you didn't explicitly write that, in fact your posts don't say anything, it's only speculation and rumor, devoid of facts. But it's rhethorically suggstive to people who have less insight into this big problem than we do.