$$$ and upgrade difficulty, especially if the CPU is too old.
Larry / W1DYJ
On 5/1/2025 11:22, Greg Walls via wsjt-devel 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
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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
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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
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