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Old 09-05-2014, 03:08 PM   #193
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Originally Posted by kdogg View Post
Mr. Goval,
First, thank you for the extraordinary gift you have given the eBook community with Calibre.

I understand your good conscience at closing off Calibre 2.x to the XP community because you have received complaints.

I do not understand why your good conscience stops cold at perhaps treating your users as grownups who can make their own informed decisions about whether to upgrade Calibre on their own systems.

You treat us as though we are smart enough to use information on how to compile an edited version of the source code – a task is far beyond the means and abilities of some of us – while treating us as too stupid to read a warning about how Calibre may not work on some XP installs.

You seem to want to give us only two choices: be an engineer or be a child. I am neither. I know how to read a warning, however, and of course am now quite well informed that at some point I may not be able to run new installs on my XP machine. Please, sir, treat me like a grownup and allow me to make my own decisions about upgrading Calibre.

In my first post on this board, I stated that 2.0 works better than previous versions on my system. I have more experience with 2.0 since I made that post, a lot more, and I am continuing to have an excellent experience with it. You are an amazing toolmaker. Not many engineers ever develop tools that become a vital part of their users' working systems.

I cannot afford the costs in money and time of upgrading my system, and in fact love the way my system has worked for years. I'm not an engineer, I'm a writer. The only things I compile are short stories. Please allow your community to make its own decisions about which versions of Calibre to use.
Would you be happy if Calibre 2.x with Qt5 corrupted your database? The problem is that many people will install Calibre 2.x with Qt5 under XP and when it goes wonky, they will complain and blame Calibre when it's really Qt5 not getting along with XP. Will they read all the warnings and just take heed of them when something goes wrong? Nope. They will complain and some will say Calibre 2.x is garbage. All because of allowing Calibre 2.x to be run under Windows XP. The amount of complaints that could very well happen will not be worth the support nightmare that trying to support Qt5 with XP will cause. There has to come a point when one has to cut his losses and move on. This is one of those cases and XP get's left out in the cold.

Qt5 does not always get along with XP. That's the gist of the issue. Either you go back to 1.48 or you move to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and then you can run Calibre 2.x. You could run from source if you want. If you don't want, XP has to go.
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