What does everyone do when using open source project? UHM… find the binary and download it. Oke, that’s not bad but it sometimes pays off to go and use the sources of that project. By sources I mean look at the CVS/SVN repository of the project. Why you may ask?

The reason it pays is because sometimes in the repository you find the latest fixes that are not released yet. The same is with the this issue with xerces I stumbled upon. Continue reading →