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Ghitulescu · 10-15-2014, 02:31 AM

I don't want to bother anyone more with this subject, this is my last submission to this point.

I know all these arguments. I used them myself to justify my ideas of progress when I was a young programmer. And had no responsibilities towards the customers. When I got the next position I told them that I prefer to see them programming code rather than paying them debugging code.

The point I was made, has little to do with the old hardware. Although a new software may have problems running on older hardware, so there is a also a link to new software.

My point was - changing to a new, say upgraded version of QT, what improvements has it brought? Yes, I've read the log. There is no major change, like supporting ePub 3.0 (which by the unwritten code should have increased the major version to the consecutive ordinal, like 1.00 - instead Sigil remained still in so-called alpha, ie versions below 1.00). But this small, cosmetic change, simply dismissed a whole range of computers, probably the largest base of installed OS*, weeks only after the official cease of support.

It was not my point to argue anything else, including criticism to the author, older HW better than new one, and whatever else.

Besides I'm in this new game of eBooks only for some months, since I've got my (first) Sony, and imagine this would not help me any better in this jungle. I was also informed in a very recent thread that the calibre I had downloaded when I bought the Sony jumped from 0.94 to 2.5 in this short time, again leaving the XP support out ...

Sorry for this trouble, I'll stick then with the last versions that work on XP. I stress again, this was not criticism, just the need to understand the reasons for this citius, altius, fortius.

*AFAIK many Vista computers have been downgraded to XP. I did it myself.

10-15-2014, 02:31 AM	#24
Ghitulescu Fanatic Posts: 563 Karma: 403106 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: PRS-T1	I don't want to bother anyone more with this subject, this is my last submission to this point. I know all these arguments. I used them myself to justify my ideas of progress when I was a young programmer. And had no responsibilities towards the customers. When I got the next position I told them that I prefer to see them programming code rather than paying them debugging code. The point I was made, has little to do with the old hardware. Although a new software may have problems running on older hardware, so there is a also a link to new software. My point was - changing to a new, say upgraded version of QT, what improvements has it brought? Yes, I've read the log. There is no major change, like supporting ePub 3.0 (which by the unwritten code should have increased the major version to the consecutive ordinal, like 1.00 - instead Sigil remained still in so-called alpha, ie versions below 1.00). But this small, cosmetic change, simply dismissed a whole range of computers, probably the largest base of installed OS, weeks only after the official cease of support. It was not my point to argue anything else, including criticism to the author, older HW better than new one, and whatever else. Besides I'm in this new game of eBooks only for some months, since I've got my (first) Sony, and imagine this would not help me any better in this jungle. I was also informed in a very recent thread that the calibre I had downloaded when I bought the Sony jumped from 0.94 to 2.5 in this short time, again leaving the XP support out ... Sorry for this trouble, I'll stick then with the last versions that work on XP. I stress again, this was not criticism, just the need to understand the reasons for this citius, altius, fortius. AFAIK many Vista computers have been downgraded to XP. I did it myself.