[Tm4j-developers] [PATCH] Merge utility rewrite

[Florian G. H. <fg...@bk...>]

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Hello!

While in the process of putting together some functionality for
XHTML-from-XTM generation -- which will be checked in Real Soon Now --, I
fiddled a bit with the Merge utility, which, as it happened, resulted in a
fairly complete re-write. :-) 

I used Steve Purcell's JArgs package
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/jargs) and added some new options. JArgs
is a largely GNU-compatible command line parser allowing for specifying
both short (-x) and long (--option) command line args, which makes it easy
to add new features without writing outrageously complicated parsing
routines. The rewritten Merge utility still writes either to stdout or an
output file, but now additionally supports reading from stdin so you can
pipe output from a TM generator or the like to it. This still lacks a lot
of documentation, but perhaps one or two of you can make the time for
taking a look at it. As usual, just a proposal -- no hard feelings if it's
rejected. Might be worthwhile to take a look at JArgs itself too: I'm a 
bit ambivalent about it, it works fine but uses all sorts of odd 
constructs such as nesting tons of inner classes and the like.

When testing, apply the patch from the root of your TM4J CVS tree. 
After recompiling, invoke Merge with the -? or --help switch to see what 
options it now supports.

I'd be happy about comments.
Thanks in advance,
- -- Florian

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Florian G. Haas <fg...@bk...>

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