Graffle 5 OS

[Bill Rowe]

On 2/28/08 at 11:36 PM, vjdif at prodigy.net (Vic DiFranco) wrote:

>At any rate, the programmers have made their decision, and I'm sure
>have given it a great deal of thought. I certainly am not going to
>complain to them, who have written such a useful and intuitive
>application. Perhaps the criticism should go to Apple, for making
>the OS upgrade one that is not backward compatible.

You apparently have a different idea than I of what it means to 
have a backward compatible OS upgrade.

OmniGraffle 4.2.2 seems to run fine under OS 10.5.2 as far as I 
can determine. If the OS 10.5 were not reasonably backward 
compatible with OS 10.4 this would not be the case.

Obviously, an OS upgrade introduces fixes and new features that 
didn't exist in the previous version. If this were not the case, 
it wouldn't be an upgrade. I assume OmniGraffle 5 takes 
advantage of some of these new features making OmniGraffle 5 
incompatible with previous versions of the OS. This clearly 
isn't anything Apple can influence and is entirely under the 
control of OmniGroup.

If the new features, fixes etc in OS 10.5 or OmniGraffle 5 are 
useful/important to you then clearly you will need to upgrade 
both the OS and OmniGraffle. If there isn't a compelling reason 
to upgrade, then things should continue to work for you as they 
do now.