Graffle 5 OS

[Wim Lewis]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Vic DiFranco wrote:
> Just a question about OmniGraffle 5.0. Will it always be the case  
> that OS 10.5 (Leopard) is necessary?


Yes. OmniGraffle 5.0 and onward require Leopard.

We realize we've broken from our usual practice of not requiring a new  
major OS release until it's been out for a year (except for completely  
new Omni products). We don't want to force our users onto an upgrade  
treadmill. But there are a number of developer-type features in  
Leopard that were too good to pass up. Writing code to support OS  
release N-1 as well as N can sometimes take a surprising amount of  
effort (it depends on what exactly has changed between the two  
releases, of course) and we always have to balance backwards  
compatibility against the possibility of using those engineer-hours to  
produce a better product for the current release. In this case we  
decided it was worth it to go Leopard-only a little earlier than usual.

Since we know there are a number of people stuck on 10.4.x for  
whatever reason and therefore stuck on Graffle 4.x, we are intending  
to bring out a release 4.2.3 sometime soon. But that's basically a bug- 
fix release.


Wim Lewis / wiml at omnigroup.com