Errors when recompiling under .NET 3.5

[codemaestro]

Hi Travis!

I need to define a target framework of .NET 3.5, (possibly even lower) for use in a current project. I was able to find and correct (maybe wrongly) two of the three errors I encountered:

The ones I fixed:

• KeyGenerator.getFormat: replace String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace with String.IsNullOrEmpty
• FormatCompiler.prepareRegex: replace String.Join("|", matches) with String.Join("|", matches.ToArray())

The one I can't:

• FormatCompiler.getArguments: Error generated: 'System.Collections.Generic.List' does not contain a definition for 'Zip' and no extension method 'Zip' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

What is the desired effect of the use of Enumerable.Zip in this context, and would it be easy enough to work around it?

Thanks, -Tony

[codemaestro]

Just after I hit I found I can implement a static class like this: http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/LinqZip35.aspx

Can you help verify that the "patches" I made will work as intended?

Thanks, -Tony

[jehugaleahsa]

Hey @codemaestro. It sounds like everything you did will make the code .NET 3.5 compatible. I don't have any future plans to migrate back to .NET 3.5, but your changes may be useful to someone else who has to support .NET 3.5. Feel free to reply with a link to your fork, if you have one.

[codemaestro]

Hi Travis @jehugaleahsa . I encountered bugs with trying to recreate the same behaviour, so I switched to Nustache, a different mustache-like library that worked under .NET 3.5. While it implements mustache differently than yours, I was able to get it to do what I needed.

I will be deleting my fork.