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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Jon makes a good point
Irrespective of what version of what OS they use, many folks only upgrade calibre when there is something worth having. And a new plugin could certainly be worth having, without having to stumble around the 'baggage' of new features in the core.
BR
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It IS a good point. The strange thing is that it could be used to argue either direction. If the lure of additional functionality encourages the current user base to upgrade to the current version, that would be good for future developers. Those stats you pointed out only list 25% of the installs, but if we extrapolate, that's 40% who are still using a pre-1.x version, which is sad.
Personally, I'll code for the current version, and if the code works for earlier versions, that's a bonus. And if it doesn't and users upgrade to get the plugins, that's a bonus too. If there were a significant percentage who COULDN'T upgrade, that would affect my thinking, but I suspect it's more a matter of the users not bothering than an inability.
When my code is ready, I'll test it for compatibility, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it if it doesn't run on Calibre 0.1.5.
