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DiapDealer · 09-28-2014, 03:28 PM

I'll be honest... I'm sad to see support for XP and OS X < 10.9 go by the wayside with Sigil and calibre (and other software). I understand why support is being dropped, but it's still a shame that machines with OSes that seemed perfectly capable of running Sigil 0.7.4 (w/QT5) should be denied the opportunity to run 0.8.0. At least calibre has given XP users the option to "run from source" to get around the limitation.

I'd be more than happy to compile an unofficial/unsupported version of v0.8.0 that I believe would work on any XP machines that were able to run 0.7.2/3/4 without issues, but I'm reluctant to make waves or create support/bug-report nightmares.

09-28-2014, 03:28 PM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,682 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I'll be honest... I'm sad to see support for XP and OS X < 10.9 go by the wayside with Sigil and calibre (and other software). I understand why support is being dropped, but it's still a shame that machines with OSes that seemed perfectly capable of running Sigil 0.7.4 (w/QT5) should be denied the opportunity to run 0.8.0. At least calibre has given XP users the option to "run from source" to get around the limitation. I'd be more than happy to compile an unofficial/unsupported version of v0.8.0 that I believe would work on any XP machines that were able to run 0.7.2/3/4 without issues, but I'm reluctant to make waves or create support/bug-report nightmares. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-28-2014 at 04:55 PM.