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[Andrew S. T. <ato...@ei...>]

Hi everyone... *notices the cricket sounds from the bushes*

Just to let people know what's happening.  I doubt I'll get a release in
today, because there are a few things I'm working on which aren't
finished enough to put out to the general public.

1) [Java] Collating fix for the Filters.filter method which takes sort
specifications

The problem here was discovered based on some feedback to a list article
along with me trying to port the filter package to the .NET edition.  I
noticed that I was always using the "natural" ordering of string
property values.  This isn't going to fly with i18n--which I obviously
hadn't used this functionality for yet.

At the present time, I have an implementation that fixes it, but the
performance is crap for even a small data set.  When I get a fix for
this (think I know what I want to do, but just not sure when I'll get it
finished), I'll have a new release.

While addressing this problem, I added a new method to the
ResourceManager class to return a locale based on a string.  I had this
for testing before, but I need it a lot more now, so I cleaned it up and
put it into CVS.

2) [.NET] Started port of filter package

I had hoped that I could get this done this weekend, but it isn't going
to work out.  I didn't plan on getting sidetracked with the i18n issues
for the Java edition, but they started when I was trying to figure out
how to implement the sorting using the .NET collections.  This is one of
two currently on-going things for the next release.

3) [.NET] Addition of MS-style arguments to parser

Looking closer at the types of options supported by the Mono compiler as
well as those supported by other Microsoft applications, I realize that
there's no support for some of these constructs in the current
CommandParser.  You can change the switch and accomplish a lot of it,
but the /option+ /option- things aren't there at all.  Also, the
/option:value isn't there either.  I hope to get this support included
in the pre3 release.

Hopefully, I'll get all this sorted and a new release out next weekend.

Cheers,

ast
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Andrew S. Townley
http://te-code.sourceforge.net