Re: Calibre Replacement Considerations

> This blog post <https://anarc.at/software/desktop/calibre/> popped up
> in my screensaver display a few minutes ago, and was interesting enough
> for me to find the original. Calibre is the well-known software package
> for viewing and managing ebooks and converting between formats. As the
> blog writer says:
>
>      It's used by Linux geeks as well as Windows power-users and vastly
>      surpasses any native app shipped by ebook manufacturers. I know
>      almost exactly zero people that have an ebook reader that do *not*
>      use Calibre.
>
> However, there seem to be quite a few problems with it, not the least
> of which is that the principal developer seems to have trouble
> appreciating security vulnerabilities.
>
> Another issue is that it is written in Python 2 (though an in-progress
> port to Python 3 seems to be mostly “going well”). At one point the
> developer claimed that wasn’t a big deal, as he could continue to
> maintain Python 2 himself after it became obsolete upstream, but he
> seems to have backtracked from that position. One pressing problem is
> that newer versions of Calibre depend on Python 2 libraries that are no
> longer available in Debian (and therefore would also disappear from all
> the usual Debian derivatives, like Ubuntu and Linux Mint).
>
> However, the list of useful functions that Calibre performs is
> remarkably long, so finding substitutes for them all is going to be
> rather daunting.

Might be a call to arms for forking it (Calibre3) or moving Calibre
itself to Python3?

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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