[antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main ANTLR line

Tiller, Michael (M.M.) mtiller at ford.com
Tue Dec 4 10:43:48 PST 2001


Although I haven't used it, I have heard good things about "BRAS" as a platform independent system "make-like" system:

http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John D. Mitchell [mailto:johnm-antlr at non.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main 
> ANTLR line
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Ford <Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au> writes:
> [...]
> > I read you interesting article on xml and I disagree about 
> it as a reason
> > to not use Ant One of the things I like about XML is using 
> XML-Spy which
> > makes XML human readable and also checks for valid inputs 
> if you have
> > DTD's and schemas Build files can get very messy and using Ant and
> > XML-Spy is as good as any I have used.
> 
> FYI, Ant v2.x is supposedly going to support multiple input 
> formats, not
> just XML.
> 
> Also... Alas, XML-Spy is not open source.  Having to buy a 
> $400 license
> tool to be able to effectively/efficiently/etc. use Ant is, 
> IMVHO, a very
> odd argument.  Of course, if you have to have something like XML-Spy
> because you've gotten sucked into using so many things that 
> require such a
> tool.... :-)
> 
> 
> ObAntlr:  Anyone up for designing and building a good 
> "makefile" language
> and a translator from that to e.g., Ant?
> 
> Take care,
> 	John
> 
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