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Originally Posted by cybmole
nothing new here,except that as calibre has at least 784 user preference options already, some of which are doubtless silly, where's the harm in having one more
taking your text editor analogy: word is quite happy to open a backup file, if one exists & if I tell it to, it is equally happy to let me re-edit the latest version, it does not purport to tell me what my workflow should be. It doesn't say that I cant access the backup unless first I delete any currrent version in the same folder...
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You mean, if you manually save another .docx?
I mean to say, that if I have a "somefile~" and I try to open "somefile", it doesn't try to get me to use the backup... because it assumes the newer version is better. I assume Word does the same
i.e. .asd files are used only when corruption occurs.
Naturally, if I go outside the box and load the backup file specifically, I can do so. Feel free to use ebook-convert to convert ORIGINAL_FMT files.
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now if the response had been: from a tech/design prespective what you want is a huge hassle & no one else wants it so go to back of queue - fine.
if the response is : you are asking for user choice and calibre is NOT about providing options, well... that would seem very strange.
So when the actual response is not going to happen, my way or the highway, it does not seem to gell well ...
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I am pretty sure the aforementioned previous discussion involved you being told "your misuse of the ORIGINAL_FMT feature is not valid grounds to shoehorn random settings in just to fit your workflow" -- when no one else in calibre's multimillion-person userbase is doing as you are doing. That is because, again, you are
misusing and abusing the feature. It works for you? Fine -- but that is not a guarantee of
anything. You will not get any support for doing so.
You want calibre to version-control your ebooks and allow you to convert from different snapshots?
File a feature request. (request == something currently not done.) Don't complain when abusing a totally different feature gets you halfway and then walks off on you.
calibre is all about options -- assuming the Dictator-in-Chief decides that that particular option
is a good thing.