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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Yes, but it wouldn't reduce the possibilities of calibre either. And make calibre usable for quite a few people in return.
Fact is, it would be a HUGE improvement for those who care.
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Fact is most people don't care if they did someone would have done it by now. That thread and argument was from a few years ago this argument has been going on for a few years even before that.
In all those years it was not important enough for anyone to branch off calibre as its opensource or submit a patch etc. I understand why you want it I would have been in the same boat as you 4-5 years ago if I hadn't bit the bullet and transferred all my ebooks to calibre. I haven't regretted that decision.
Thing is I think if Kovid had said its not possible because of the way calibre has been built instead of I am not interested in doing that you would not have got your back up about it.
A building is built on a foundation what you are asking for kovid to do is rebuild the foundation for an already standing building. To do that he would have to tear down the building and foundation then start from scratch. It took Kovid years to build up calibre not counting years spend by Chaley and others adding or improving stuff. Kovid does not feel it is an efficient use of his time or resources to start from scratch. Nor did any of the other millions of users thought it was worth their time to modify calibre. 1000s of programmers probably use calibre none of them have even tried.