[antlr-interest] 4.0 daily builds

Sam Barnett-Cormack s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk
Sun Jan 1 13:55:31 PST 2012


Maven was abandoned? Darn it, I just got used to using that last time I 
was working on a project using ANTLR... every time I've looked at using 
ant it just pissed me off, far too much complexity for simple tasks.

Sam

On 01/01/2012 21:34, Jim Idle wrote:
> I told you not to abandon maven ;)
>
> Jim
>
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 13:26, Terence Parr<parrt at cs.usfca.edu>  wrote:
>
>> damn ant. let me look again. could swear i looked at jar.
>> Ter
>> On Jan 1, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
>>
>>> antlr-4.0ea-complete.jar only contains ANTLR4, but not all the other
>>> stuff you need. Stringtemplate and all the ANTLR 3 stuff is missing.
>>> If you add it to class path it does work, though!
>>>
>>> @Ter: Not sure if this is a mistake?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/1/1 Terence Parr<parrt at cs.usfca.edu>:
>>>> Hi. antlr-4.0ea-complete.jar Should have everything you need. just add it to the class path.  When you say it doesn't work, what do you mean?
>>>>
>>>> check out these examples I just posted
>>>>
>>>> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR4/Examples
>>>>
>>>> I'm sort of keeping a list of stuff to fix and add here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/~admin/TODO+list
>>>>
>>>> I don't really have a changes list at this point. I will do a global diff at some point.
>>>>
>>>> Yep, we will definitely need updated documentation and so on. There will be a full formal release eventually and I'm even thinking about rebuilding the website. a book update will be necessary.
>>>>
>>>> The most obvious differences with v4 are:
>>>>
>>>> * (directly) left recursive grammars that works great for expressions
>>>> * modes in the lexer
>>>> * the lexer rules behave as you'd expect lexer rules to behave now
>>>> * it takes any grammar you give it that isn't indirectly left recursive; there are no static grammar analysis errors
>>>>
>>>> "Honey badger doesn't care; its bad ass" :)
>>>>
>>>> Ter
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 1, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Great stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> It does not work for me with Java 1.6.0_27 or Java 1.7.0, though.
>>>>> Windows 7 64-bit here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, is there any documentation, what's new, etc anywhere? Do you
>>>>> plan to update the book(s) for 4.0?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Terence Parr<parrt at cs.usfca.edu>  wrote:
>>>>>> http://antlr.org/download/antlr-4.0ea-complete.jar (ANTLR v4, v3 and ST v4)
>>>>>> http://antlr.org/download/antlr-4.0ea-src.zip
>>>>>>
>>>>>> not "official" yet just easier access, no build needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>>> http://www.elpauer.org
>>>>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>>>>>
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