Musings from The Software Underground

The fifth MacGourmet 2 public beta is now available.

One of the main things of note at this point is that MacGourmet 2 will officially require Mac OS X 10.4 or later. While developing the new version, I was conscious of my own use of features to maintain backwards support, but unfortunately, some of the external libraries used to build the new version do not support anything earlier than 10.4. My only option at this point, and I looked into it, would be to pull out or code around all of this new functionality, but I felt that this would essentially cripple the application, not to mention, it'd be a lot of work to pull out these features, time that a lot of people want me to be spending on new things (nutrition, menu planning, etc.) instead. It'd be nice to be able to easily support all the way back to say 10.2, but with the way Apple pushes developers and new versions, it's really hard to support more than the last 2 versions, and with 10.5 on the horizon, support for 10.3 was slated to be discontinued anyway.

Just head on over to MacGourmet.com to get all the info...

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