[antlr-interest] Profiler 2

Geir Ove Skjaervik geiroves at online.no
Sun Dec 4 07:39:07 PST 2005


Hello,

I can't help  but commenting on this: 

<<However, would you not be an early adopter of the modified 2.7.5?>>

It is a HUGHE difference moving from e.g. 2.7.4 to 2.7.5 or a new 2.7.6!
I also have a projected deeply coupled with 2.7.5 and its behavior e.g
when it comes to e.g. Exceptions, which is a **big deal** in a well
behaved production environment! I cannot for my life change to using 3.x
at this stage.

I find it very important that the ANTLR development team appreciates the
importance of this: Every one seems to say: Skip 2.7.x and move on to
3.x. For the next project, that might be OK, for the Current Production
/ Commercial projects I guess most users feel the same way.


Geir Ove

-----Original Message-----
From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Jim Idle
Sent: 4. desember 2005 06:55
To: ANTLR Interest
Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Profiler 2


However, would you not be an early adopter of the modified 2.7.5?
 
I like to think of it this way: you probably have a few more issues than
normal with the development phase but at some point you produce a parser
that you test the bejesus out of and it works. Once generated it will
always work (within the limits of what you were able to test) and
therefore it does not matter if it is generated by an early version of
ANTLR3 or not. Might well be a bit early yet though, I agree ;-)
 
Jim
 

________________________________

From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org on behalf of Bryan Ewbank
Sent: Fri 12/2/2005 4:42 PM
To: ANTLR Interest
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Profiler 2



That does sound nice, but I'm working in a production environment and
cannot afford the risks associated with being an early adopter.

On 12/2/05, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:
> I would think that by the time you have changed the existing code 
> generator either Ric would have finished the ANTLR3 c++ generator, or 
> I will have finished the ANTLR3 C code generator. I think that either 
> of these should make a project such as this unnecessary unless you 
> absolutely must only use 2.7.x...
>
> ... or we both screw up ;-)
>
> Jim






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