[antlr-interest] Change in output location with 3.0b7

[Andy Tripp]

Martin Fowler wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 3.0b7 and I noticed a change in where Antlr puts 
> its output files (didn't spot it in the update log.)
>
> Previously if you specified an output directory with -o and you had a 
> grammar in a subdirectory it would put the output in the corresponding 
> subdirectory in the output directory. Now it just puts it directly in 
> the subdirectory. I'm not saying this is wrong, but I thought I'd 
> point it out as it's caused my stuff to break :-(
>
> I've been intending to write a little program to walk my src directory 
> and use the API to generate output files if necessary in a 
> corresponding gen directory (which I can keep out of version control). 
> (I have a lot of them as I'm exploring lots of alternative langauges 
> and parsers within the same project). If nothing else I guess this 
> makes me want to do it. But if there's an easier way to do this or 
> someone's already done it do let me know ;-)
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but if you just need a 
nice, easy way to get info on Java source files,
use the doclet API. Javadoc is a doclet, for example.