[antlr-interest] ANTLR build and package layout

Matt Benson gudnabrsam at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 19 06:27:05 PDT 2002


For whatever it's worth, Brian is not the only one out
here who wishes there were an Ant build for ANTLR.

-Matt

--- Ric Klaren <klaren at cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:47:27PM -0500, Brian
> Smith wrote:
> > (1) I am interested in contributing some patches
> to ANTLR. But, the
> > makefile seems not to work on Windows, with or
> without Cygwin. Since
> > ANTLR is pure Java, I am wondering if the ANTLR
> developers would
> > consider switching to Apache Jakarta ANT for
> building? I could submit
> > the ANT build script.
> 
> What is not working on windows? I personally am not
> ANT fan, then again I'm
> the weird C++ guy here ;)
> 
> > (2) It would be easier to understand the ANTLR
> source code if it were
> > divided into more packages. It is particularly
> confusing to have the
> > ANTLR runtime library and the code generator
> source code together in the
> > same package. Would it be possible to move the
> classes that support
> > antlr.Tool to their own package (antlr.tool.*)?
> Presumably antlr.Tool
> > itself would have to stay in the "antlr" package
> for backwards
> > compatibility with the ANTLR ANT Task and IDE
> integration, but I am not
> > sure.
> 
> Good point. I think it's on the TODO list somewhere.
> Terence already did a
> mea culpa about the source organisation a while back
> ;) No clue when this
> will be taken on though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ric
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