Beta or finished?

Thomas Wooded

I am running Logos 4 for Windows on my Mac with Parallels (or under Boot Camp if I need better performance) under Windows 7 Pro and have found it to be very usable setup and love what the program can do! (The new Mac betas are finally to a usable state... thanks Mac team!)

My question is this... I have seen several posts that refer to the Windows version as "still beta." I can't seem to find any indication that the program I have is a beta. I know that more development is still going on and more features are being added, but, is Logos 4 for Windows in a final released state?

Thanks.

J.R. Miller

The L4win product is not in Beta. There is, however, a group of volunteers who are testing out new features that will be added to the full release.  These new features are in Beta but will not be added until the testing cycle is complete.

In short, the version you are using under Windows is not Beta.  

Blessings

Rosie Perera

Thomas, Logos 4 for Windows graduated from "beta" and released in a "final" released state in November 2009. However it was admitted from the get-go that there were some features that had been in Logos 3 which had not been re-implemented yet on the new architecture (which was redesigned from the ground up). Thus some cynical users were (perhaps rightfully) claiming that it should have been still called a beta until all these features were completed. Logos had a different philosophy about it. What they released in November was complete and stable (no known serious bugs) for what it promised to be, which was not yet a complete replacement for Libronix (Logos 3). The list of features they still are scheduled to complete is here: http://www.logos.com/4/missingfeatures. Each new release (4.0a, 4.0b, 4.0c, 4.0d, now 4.1) goes through beta testing while the new features are being completed, to get it fully debugged; when each of these ships it is considered a final stable release, up to that point.

But of course software development is never truly finished. Even after those final features listed for implementation in 2011 are implemented, there are a whole ream of suggestions that have been submitted by users which Logos will be attacking, for 4.x whatever release they are on by then.

It seems to me that the Mac version has been the beneficiary of all the bug fixing and development going on for the Windows version, since they share all the same core code. Thus that's perhaps why you are seeing the "beta" versions of Logos 4 for Mac look more finished than you might expect a beta to be. I'm glad you're liking it. It's been a long time coming, and Logos is to be congratulated for this massive accomplishment. Keep testing it though, and report any bugs you find, since by definition a beta could still be buggy and they're looking to the users to help them flush out any remaining problems.