Graffle 5 OS

[Karl Kuehn]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Karl> 	There is little chance that they are going to go back and  
> make the
> Karl> (probably) major architectural changes that would be needed  
> after  releasing
> Karl> the code.
>
> Well, if it was just a matter of adding a few ifdefs or adding  
> another check
> box to "compile for", that's not necessarily hard.

	Once again, I have no access to the code, and so am only guessing,  
but there have been pretty major changes to text layout engines, the  
introduction of CoreAnimation (and lots of associated changes), and  
everything that is in Objective-C 2.0. If any one of these were used  
it would not be worthwhile to try and hack around them to get 10.4.

	And this ignores the evidence that OmniGroup has already brought out  
a few times that people who don't upgrade their OS are not  
(statistically speaking) probable buyers of new software.

> I too, have not hit 10.5 yet.  I've heard a few scare things even
> about 10.5.2, so I'll be waiting for 10.5.3.


	As compared to all the scary things we know are in 10.4? Unless you  
have very specific reasons to be on 10.4 (like there is software you  
need that you know does not work, such as software in the Classic  
environment) it is long since time to make the move. Stop reading  
MacFixit. If you are going to make the move on the hardware you are on  
now, then it is long since time to do so.

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		Karl Kuehn
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