[antlr-interest] ANTLR Library as Eclipse Plugin

[Scott Stanchfield]

You can just grab the org.antlr plugin from that distribution and you'll be
fine.

-- Scott 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org 
> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Arrais
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:02 PM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: [antlr-interest] ANTLR Library as Eclipse Plugin
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We at EclipseFP (http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net) are 
> developing an Eclipse-based IDE for the Haskell language and 
> we are using Antlr on our parser/lexer code. There is of 
> course the need to access the Antlr library at runtime and 
> the standard way to do this in Eclipse is having a plugin 
> that contains it. We managed to do that so far by packaging 
> the antlr inside one of our plugins but we see that this 
> isn't the best approach, since we don't really maintain the 
> antlr code. So, we are looking for a plugin (preferarbly with 
> an easy to use installation process, like an update site) 
> that solely contains it.
> 
> I happened to find the antlreclipse plugin at
> 
> http://antlreclipse.sourceforge.net/
> 
> But the standard setup downloads and installs a collection of 
> plugins for editing Antlr code. Most of our users won't need 
> all those plugins, but only the main antlr library for 
> running the haskell parser code. Is there a way to download 
> only a plugin with the library code, without the Antlr editor 
> and other plugins?  I see that the project release page 
> includes a library only package, but it seems outdated. Is 
> there any other antlr eclipse plugin (one that is not easily 
> found with a simple web search)?
> 
> Am I looking at the wrong place? If so, could anyone point me 
> to the right direction?
> 
> I am willing to provide such a package (maybe for download at 
> the antlr download page, or helping the antlreclipse folks) 
> if there is interest.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thiago Arrais
>