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Originally Posted by Bigo2
I don't think Kovid had, but even if it is friendly it still is a competition...
I do think the pride of a developer is to have as many happy customers as possible - not to alienate them be removing a feature from your lovely product they liked. And if it sucks and damages other functions of your product you need to struggle to fix it.
Thank you BetterRed for your suggestions concerning working with those programs.
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Perhaps you should read back through some of the discussions as to why BookView could and would munge code even when making what seemed to be trivial changes. As for happy customers? I am happy with Sigil and I approve of the deep-sixing of BookView. I would much rather KevinH and DiapDealer spend their time on improving Sigil and not trying to fix the bugs in QT that caused many of BookView's issues.
Since you referenced calibre, one has to wonder if you have noted the number of issues with calibre 4.x.x due to the bugs in QTWebEngine which replaced QTWebKit? Check the calibre forums. Possibly the one entitled
Editor shuts down automatically in the calibre Editor forum might be of interest to you. I did love the quote from Kovid Goyal in the #19 message in that thread.
Oddly, Sigil does have a replacement for BookView which does not have the code damaging issues that BookView did though from your posts, people might think that you had never heard of or checked out PageEdit.
I will admit to getting belly laugh when you stated "
I do think the pride of a developer is to have as many happy customers as possible". In my experience in more years in IT that I care to think about, happy customers are very low on most developer's source of pride. Winning the obfuscated C contest? Now that's a source of egoboo.