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Originally Posted by davidfor
I honestly don't know how to respond to that. Apart from stating how insulting it is. And how contradictory it is.
But, lets try...
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I'm sorry if it came across as insulting. It wasn't supposed to be, and I'd tried hard at my end to bend over backwards to make it clear how grateful I am for the existence of the plugin at all.
But the model "
get your OS from the OS people and your apps from the app people" is a Windows model of computer use, not a Linux model. Most people who use Linux stick fairly rigidly to the software that's distributed under the
repository+indices+dependencies model because we know how many things start to break, and how balkanised and unsupportable our systems get, if we don't. This doesn't mean "only software distributed by the OS people", but it does mean "only software that's been built specifically for the environment provided by the version of the distro I'm choosing to run".
If this computer had no job other than to run Calibre, I'd follow your advice in a heartbeat. But it does many hundreds of important things for me other than that, most of which are in fact more important than running Calibre, and I can't endanger them all by starting to install bits of software that are not intended specifically to work with it.
I repeat, yet again, that it's
absolutely fine if you don't want to support that software model. Your plugin is a marvellous thing, which makes the world a better place. I just wanted to try to shed a little light on
why you might get pushback from some Linux users when you say "just upgrade Calibre". It's not because we feel entitled, or wish to insult you, or prize you at nought; it's because of decades of experience that suggests that following that software maintenance model doesn't work well for us.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Firstly, it is completely and utterly impossible to support the plugin, or anything for that matter, running in absolutely all platform combinations. No one has the capability do that.
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And I can only repeat the observation that at least one other Calibre plugin community doesn't feel that way. That doesn't mean you have to feel any particular way at all! It just means it's unwise to confuse "I choose to do otherwise because it's a better use of my limited and valuable time" with "it's impossible". I know your time is limited, and valuable, and it's very much up to you how you spend it.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
We can only do my best. And for me, the best I can do is to support the official release of calibre. Especially on platforms that I personally don't use. I don't not support other combinations, but, I know I won't always be able to.
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Indeed, and I for one am grateful for it, even though it cannot benefit me at this time.