Paul B Mahol (12023-11-03):
> Also I think that forward and/or backward EOF direction status checking is
> not correctly handled at all for any filters not using .activate(), and I'm
> not aware that it was ever working correctly in all cases.

Could you not start with that?!?

If you are right, that means there is a bug in the framework code. Then
the patch forward is to fix that bug, not needlessly single every simple
filter to activate.

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  Nicolas George