[antlr-interest] JavaScript Target - first release

[Johannes Luber]

Joey Hurst schrieb:
> I think it's ready, but there may be some minor API breakage in future
> releases.  Is that ok with you?
> 
> Also, if you do decide to include, let me know first.  The links I
> sent previously have some tools (jsdoc, jsunit) included in the source
> that should be stripped before inclusion in the ANTLR repo.  I can
> provide you with the updated version.
> 
> In the other targets it appears some include only source while others
> also include compiled versions of the runtime.  Is there a preferred
> style?
> 
> -Joey

The preferred style is to include only source files and have a separate 
runtime distribution. The C# target doesn't confirm yet as 3.1 is still 
beta. But for the release the binaries are going to be purged from the 
repository.

Johannes
> 
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>> Ooops...thatTarget is not built in yet.  Joey, is this one good enough to
>> include in the main distribution?
>>
>> Ter
>> On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Terence Parr wrote:
>>
>>> Great news, Joey!  Thanks...To make things easier, I just made a daily
>>> snapshot, which includes all targets:
>>>
>>> http://www.antlr.org/download/build/antlr-2008-08-03.16.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Ter
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Joey Hurst wrote:
>>>
>>>> The first release of the ANTLR JavaScript target is now available.
>>>> You can download either a pre-compiled version (suggested) or the raw
>>>> source:
>>>>
>>>> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-compiled.zip
>>>>
>>>> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-src.zip
>>>>
>>>> If you download the source distribution, build instructions can be
>>>> found here:
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/antlr-javascript/wiki/BuildingANTLRJavaScriptTarget
>>>>
>>>> To see the code in action you can open one of the example web pages in
>>>> runtime/JavaScript/examples/.  Note that the larger examples run very
>>>> slow in Internet Explorer at the moment, so I'd suggest using a faster
>>>> browser like FireFox or Safari (I'm working on performance
>>>> improvements).  The runtime/JavaScript/tests/functional directory also
>>>> has some good examples.
>>>>
>>>> If you have some spare time and know a thing or two about JavaScript
>>>> I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and send some feedback
>>>> (either to me or the antlr-javascript mailing list -
>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/antlr-javascript ).
>>>>
>>>> Although the JS target is passing a large suite of tests at the
>>>> moment, I'd still consider this alpha software because the API will
>>>> probably change a bit before the first public release.
>>>>
>>>> One final note: the downloads linked above are sync-ed with the 3.1b2
>>>> release of the main ANTLR distribution.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joey Hurst
>>
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