[antlr-interest] Re: Managed to compile under .Net !!

[Terence Parr]

Hi gang,

could be useful to get a binary antlr tool for pc's :)  Feel free to 
upload one to the file sharing area :)

Ter
On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 09:04  AM, frankhileman wrote:

> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "micheal_jor"
> <open.zone at v...> wrote:
>> Hmmm,....."just another maintenance burden" is an unfair
>> characterization of Java with respect to ANTLR usage even on
>> purely .NET projects. Nevertheless, I have wanted to eliminate
> Java
>> entirely on many occasions in the past too. In fact, we had a .NET
>> executable available - courtesy of J# - long before ANTLR/C# was
>> born. It is seldom used today.
>>
>> If a decision is taken to _always_ produce a .NET executable of
> the
>> ANTLR tool itself using J#, hidden within that is an implicit
>> assumption then that ANTLR would restrict itself to using JDK1.1.4
>> features only. Otherwise we end up with two code bases.
>>
>> Personally, I can see no strong arguments in favour of such a
>> restriction just to support the availability of a .NET executable.
>
> I can understand why you would not want this restriction. Actually
> it is not a .NET exe that is important; a native exe would do. From
> the perspective of people who only wish to use Antlr, and not build
> it, the JVM dependency is a hefty bit of luggage with its own
> versioning issues. That is all I meant. Many .NET developers don't
> use the JVM at all anymore, except for things like Antlr.
>
> Frank Hileman
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to 
> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>
--
Professor Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco
Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator, http://www.antlr.org
Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
Co-founder, http://www.knowspam.net enjoy email again!
Co-founder, http://www.peerscope.com link sharing, pure-n-simple


 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/