[antlr-interest] ANTLR build and package layout
Terence Parr
parrt at jguru.com
Thu Sep 19 11:27:31 PDT 2002
On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:27 AM, Matt Benson wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, Brian is not the only one out
> here who wishes there were an Ant build for ANTLR.
I am fundamentally opposed to Ant (even though it is reputed to be
good) because it forces users to type XML. See "Humans Should Not Have
to Grok XML", which explains why that's bad:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-sbxml.html
I believe I'm pretty persuasive in that article. ;) [though it will
make no difference whatsoever to most people who are "every language
should be XML" people--makes me wanna retch, but that emotion is a good
thing since it forced me to make ANTLR (yacc makes
me...well..er...yack!)].
Nonetheless, my goal is to make ANTLR useful for you folks. Hence, if
somebody sends me a fresh Ant script with an explanation so I don't
have to think much, I will consider inserting it and using it for ANTLR
builds.
Ter
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