Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows compatibility WSJT-X and improved

[Larry B. <lar...@ve...>]

$$$ 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 
>> <wsj...@li...> 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
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>> Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB
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>>
>> 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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