[antlr-interest] Repository for ANTLR grammar files?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Jul 20 11:35:37 PDT 2010


Hi Anatol,

Yeah,All of that is a mess and I keep thinking that what I'd like to do is create grammar repository at antlr.org that the ANTLR development environments could pull from like plug-ins.

Alas, I've so many responsibilities that take precedence, it's hard for me to allocate the time to do that.

Ter
On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:

> Hi, antlr-dev.
> 
> Looking to the Grammars List page http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list I found
> that it has 3 different grammars for javascript and 9 files for Java! This
> is a quite difficult choice for people who needs a Java version.
> 
> I think that the main reason why ANTLR has so many duplicated grammars is
> that it's difficult for people to share updates for the files. Instead
> people just post a new 'updated grammar'.
> 
> My question is how to avoid duplicating grammars for the languages? I think
> you could eliminate its number by having public repo for such files. If a
> user improves the grammar file they could send a patch. And instead of
> multiple grammar files for the same language we will have the-only-true
> version of it.
> 
> So my suggestion to you, antlr developers. Put all up-to-date grammars to
> Perforce repository and add a github mirror. And people could easily get the
> latest version and share updates for it. Does it make sense?
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