[antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main ANTLR line

[Matthew Ford]

I read you interesting article on xml and I disagree about it as a reason to
not use Ant
One of the things I like about XML is using XML-Spy which makes XML human
readable and also checks for valid inputs if you have DTD's and schemas
Build files can get very messy and using Ant and XML-Spy is as good as any I
have used.

regards
matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at jguru.com>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] merged Ric's changes into main ANTLR line


>
> On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 03:13  AM, Christian Ernst wrote:
>
> > Hy !
>
> Hiya Christian! :)
>
> > Terence Parr wrote:
> >
> >>  I have about 10 things that I want to fix before releasing a 2.7.2
> >> version.
> >
> > I would be intertested if it would contains changes for:
> >
> > 1. The Java Generator  for generating smaller static array
> > initializer !?
>
> It's on the list!  1/1 so far. :)  Can't decide whether I want to do a
> really fancy thing or just solve this immediate problem.  For example,
> if I define a GIF like compression for these bitsets it would solve this
> big static thing as well as help some lookahead computations in the
> lexer.  Hmm....I better not bite off more than I can chew between now
> and new years ;)
>
> > 2. Cutting down the size of the Java Runtime library !?
> >     ( removing any dependicies to antlr/Tool class, adding a class for
> > string
> > manipulation ?!)
>
> oops... 1/2. ;)  I hadn't planned on doing that for this release.  Are
> you using a small device?  What string manipulation would you like?  I
> have lots of fun routines hiding in my jGuru portal code. :)
>
> > Are you interested in changes for ANTLR for building with ANT !?
>
> Well, I'm fundamentally opposed to ANT no matter how good it is (people
> have sent me like 3 config files already) because I oppose making Humans
> grok XML.  Please see
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-sbxml.html
>
> for my rationale (no hate-mail til you've read that please <wink>).
> Sorry, this is my little bit of civil disobedience.  ANT is great and I
> support the tool in my jGuru capacity, but...
>
> http://www.jguru.com/faq/Ant
>
> Yes, I know the make situation is a mess right now (Ric and I are just
> discussing it) ;)
>
> Ter
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