Greg, Your comments are not totally fair. First, many of us are using computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, so it isn't FREE. Sorry, I live on Social Security and cannot afford to just go out and dump a bunch of money on a newer computer. Second, Windows 11 still has compatibility issues with some of the software I run so I am staying put for now. Third, Windows 10 doesn't even play nice at this late stage in its support life with everything I use!
Yes, I am concerned about what will happen with the .NET framework for Windows 10 after it is no longer supported as there are several things I use (like WinLink Express) that may no longer work on Windows 10, but for now I am where I am and that is that!! Thanks for seeing others' perspectives! Tom Hauer, K0YA ARES Emergency Coordinator Blanco, Burnet, Llano and Mason Counties ARRL ARES District 8, STX Section TDEM RACES District 12-053 Burnet County CERT 319 551-9788 rdrnr...@gmail.com PO Box 1522 (mailing ADR) 11700 E FM 1431 R37 Marble Falls, Tx 78654 EM00wn Latitude: 30.568805 Longitude: -98.140287 On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM Greg Walls via wsjt-devel < wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > As a former IT Professional of 32 years, why would anyone be on an > unsupported platform, especially when upgrades to Windows 11 are free? I > wonder if these guys are still driving their first car. > > Greg > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 1, 2025, at 10:06 AM, Uwe, DG2YCB via wsjt-devel < > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > You are causing a lot of confusion with such half-baked statements. Like > always, and for good reasons, the Windows installation packages for all > WSJT-X Improved versions are being created using Qt 5.12.12. This gives the > best possible backwards compatibility (down to Windows 7), as well as the > rest results in terms of rendering the various controls (also when Dark > Style is enabled). This tool chain has not been changed over the past > months. > > As you know, we've spent many days of work trying to help you with your > "special" setup on an old Windows 8.1. system. During these tests, you > confirmed that all is working well on your Windows 10 computer. And no one > else has ever reported similar issues than you with your setup. > > Please do me a favor and stop confusing others. If you don't understand > why we invest months of work to offer a data set for Qt6 in addition to the > existing Qt5 source code, then any further discussion about it here is not > worthwhile anyway. Other OMs who know what this is for are very grateful > for this work. And if at some point in the future you should buy more > modern equipment (maybe even Linux-based), then you will be grateful to us > one day why we were so wise and foresighted in 2024 and 2025 to develop the > necessary source code for it and keep it up to date. > > 73 de DG2YCB, > Uwe > ________________________________________ > German Amateur Radio Station DG2YCB > Dr. Uwe Risse > eMail: dg2...@gmx.de > Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB > > > Am 01.05.2025 um 13:55 schrieb Andy Durbin via wsjt-devel: > > "Both Windows 7 or 8.x version support will not be available for Qt 6. > Microsoft discontinued the support for both Windows versions some time ago, > and as a vendor, we can no longer maintain support for these windows > versions in Qt 6. Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) was supported as a > target in Qt 5.15 LTS and Windows 8.1 (both 32bit and 64bit) as a target in > Qt 5.12 LTS. This means that we will not have 32bit Windows support > available. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to create UWP > applications > on Windows 10." > > ref - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets > > I have found that 2.8.0 improved is not compatible with Win 8.1 and no one > has said that it works for them. > > Should the WSJT-X Windows compatibility statement be revised? It > currently states - " (Windows 7 and later)" which was true for 2.7.0 but > may not be true if later official releases use Qt6. > > 73, > Andy, k3wyc > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing > listwsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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