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Saros: Needs-based synchronisation and a greatly upgraded Whiteboard

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:58:41 +0000

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 […]

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A little problem with the OSGi Version class

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:11:17 +0000

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. […]

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Saros is on Wikipedia

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:57:58 +0000

You know you’ve made it when you’re on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saros_(software)

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Saros benefits from lots of new eyeballs

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:33:15 +0000

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 […]

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The Great Saros Documentation Overhaul

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:28:03 +0000

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 […]

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Saros in the latest Methods & Tools magazine

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:58:48 +0000

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!

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New release future-proofs Saros

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:14:05 +0000

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 […]

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Solving XStream-related problem

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:19:41 +0000

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 […]

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