[antlr-interest] Yo, Ter (was Re: ANTLR build and package lay out)

Bogdan Mitu bogdan_mt at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 20 08:00:34 PDT 2002


--- mzukowski at yci.com wrote:
> Hey kids,
> 	A good start would be my Makefile/ETAGS generator which is already
> on antlr.org, if you're trying to figure out the dependencies that .g
> files
> have.

For grammar dependencies, you can look in the Ant task for ANTLR that I
posted here some time ago. I use there an ANTLR parser for ANTLR (I mean, .g
files :-) to find imported vocabulary files and other dependencies.

Best regards,
Bogdan

> Monty
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lgcraymer [mailto:lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:32 PM
> > To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [antlr-interest] Yo, Ter (was Re: ANTLR build and package
> > layout)
> > 
> > 
> > Ter--
> > 
> > Why not make your kiddies write a domain specific language for 
> > generating skeletal ANT scripts?  That would be the obvious analog to 
> > the PCCTS Makefile generator and would be a good class assignment.
> > 
> > --Loring
> > 
> > 
> > --- In antlr-interest at y..., Terence Parr <parrt at j...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:27  AM, Matt Benson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > For whatever it's worth, Brian is not the only one out
> > > > here who wishes there were an Ant build for ANTLR.
> > > 
> > > I am fundamentally opposed to Ant (even though it is reputed to be 
> > > good) because it forces users to type XML.  See "Humans Should Not 
> > Have 
> > > to Grok XML", which explains why that's bad:
> > > 
> > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-sbxml.html
> > > 
> > > I believe I'm pretty persuasive in that article. ;)  
> > [though it will 
> > > make no difference whatsoever to most people who are "every 
> > language 
> > > should be XML" people--makes me wanna retch, but that emotion is a 
> > good 
> > > thing since it forced me to make ANTLR (yacc makes 
> > > me...well..er...yack!)].
> > > 
> > > Nonetheless, my goal is to make ANTLR useful for you folks.  Hence, 
> > if 
> > > somebody sends me a fresh Ant script with an explanation so I don't 
> > > have to think much, I will consider inserting it and using it for 
> > ANTLR 
> > > builds.
> > > 
> > > Ter
> > > --
> > > Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
> > > Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org
> > 
> > 
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