Category: Saros
Saros: Needs-based synchronisation and a greatly upgraded Whiteboard
| December 22, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
I’ve been so extremely busy the last six weeks that I’ve had no time to blog. During that time a new release of Saros went out and I almost let it pass without telling you about it. Version 11.12.9 of our distributed development tool (the final release of the year) is now available. This is… read more
A little problem with the OSGi Version class
| November 4, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
With the release of Indigo, Eclipse hackers have been exposed to a little change in the API of the org.osgi.framework.Version class. Specifically, a new method: compareTo(Version) has appeared. Prior to Eclipse 3.7, comparing two Version objects was done via the compareTo(Object) method. This caused us in the Saros team to suffer a rather subtle bug.… read more
Saros is on Wikipedia
| October 24, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
You know you’ve made it when you’re on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saros_(software) read more
Saros benefits from lots of new eyeballs
| October 21, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
The latest version of Saros (11.9.30) is now available. This is the first version released under my new working arrangement, so despite my reduced capacity to co-ordinate development, Saros continues to live. As the saying goes, “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” For the last couple of months, Saros has benefitted from over a… read more
The Great Saros Documentation Overhaul
| September 26, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
I just recently noticed an old blog post of mine from late last year in which I announced the creation of a Getting Started page (referring to it rather grandly as “user manual”). I think it’s timely to announce now that the Saros documentation has been greatly overhauled. Not only has existing content been updated… read more
Saros in the latest Methods & Tools magazine
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Methods & Tools magazine invited me to contribute an article about Saros to their publication. It appears in the latest autumn edition, available on their website. Take a look! read more
New release future-proofs Saros
| August 16, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
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As my previous post suggested, the changes introduced by the recently released Java 7 and Eclipse 3.7 caused our project a couple of headaches. After some careful development and an extensive period of testing, we can confidently say that the latest release of Saros (version 11.7.29) works happily with the latest generations of Java and… read more
Solving XStream-related problem
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Just a quickie post to advertise a solution we on the Saros team found to a quite serious problem resulting from the release of Java 7. In testing, Saros was functioning fine with Java 6 users, but Java 7 users experienced problems that we only found through looking at the error log: ERROR 2011-07-29 16:43:38,942… read more
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