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Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows compatibility WSJT-X and improved
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From: Greg W. <gw...@po...> - 2025-05-01 15:23:01
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.<div><br></div><div>Greg</div><div><br><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 1, 2025, at 10:06 AM, Uwe, DG2YCB via wsjt-devel <wsj...@li...> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Hi Andy,<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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73 de DG2YCB,<br>
Uwe<br>
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German Amateur Radio Station DG2YCB<br>
Dr. Uwe Risse<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 01.05.2025 um 13:55 schrieb Andy
Durbin via wsjt-devel:<br>
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"Both <span style="font-weight: 700;">Windows 7 or 8.x</span> 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 <span style="font-weight: 700;">UWP</span> applications
on Windows 10."</div>
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ref - <a href="https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets" id="LPlnk307179" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets</a></div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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73,</div>
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Andy, k3wyc</div>
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