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Originally Posted by kiwidude
@anotherCat - it is pretty clear you are not a developer......
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No I am not a developer and have not claimed to be so I wonder why you are wanting to point that out.
However, I have managed some very big complex technology projects of values >$100millions and have had my own employees seconded into one of the worlds largest defence contractors as the client's software engineer contributors to the development. I am used to searching for reasons when software engineers claim something cannot be done and have often enough led them to discovering clues for themselves as to resolving issues in software through that questioning.
So, if I were to be of the same dismissive mindset (I am not) I could perhaps echo your own words along the lines of "it is pretty clear you have not managed large complex development projects". But I am in no position to know your background and make assumptions about it, just as you are in no position to make such judgements about mine.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
...The one proviso I will add is that these plugins were written a long time ago, and calibre has moved on since then. Perhaps Kovid now has other protection available via the code to offer an alternative to the prompts, certainly there was not back then and this was the standard pattern every plugin that manipulated the calibre library in this sort of way followed...
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So you see, it seems you are now saying it may be possible - just not as you believe the code now is. Perhaps it is too much work, I realise the resource constraints, or perhaps it would turn out that it is not possible, but none of those things disqualify me from asking the questions I did nor be deserving of a dismissive response as your first line.