[antlr-interest] New Language Glossary

[Terence Parr]

On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 08:27  PM, David Penton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> At 03:27 PM 2/01/2003 -0800, Terence Parr wrote:
>> I'm waiting to hear from people about the release candidate (probably
>> Monday people will be back).  Then we push!  I have to start preparing
>> for my grad language class that starts at the end of this Month at 
>> USF!
>> :)
>
> I have tried it with my BASIC compiler and everything has worked so
> far...got a couple of deprecation warnings on compiling which were 
> easily
> fixed(setASTNodeType->setASTNodeClass).

Oh crap.  I think I've got all this stuff mixed up.  Most stuff is 
setASTNodeType and there are a few setASTNodeClass methods.  The 
setASTNodeType method says deprecated.  Damn.

Anybody have any thoughts about which way it should be?  grep shows 
...NodeType to be the most popular version in the system. :(

>> I'll thinking about the build process at this point.  Boy do I hate
>> Ant. :(  Icky poo.  I think I'll just keep my stupid shell script that
>> rebuilds everything since it only takes like 2 seconds on my old OS X
>> box. ;)
>
> Surely 10e6 people have sent you ant scripts for antlr by now....maybe 
> just
> copy one of them in and put the authors email address at the top to 
> handle
> all the problems and complaints.

I was thinking of doing just that.

>
> The problem with ant alternatives is for java projects that have to 
> work
> across windows/unix is how unportable they are.  Make and Gmake exec
> processes for so much of their functionality ie 'find', 'grep', 'touch'
> which are a real pain to get working reliably across platforms.  Using
> shell scripts and batch files means maintaining at least 2 versions 
> which
> always seem to get out of sync.

Yeah, scripts are just not portable :(


> As well as build process how are you going to package antlr?  At the 
> moment
> there is a 'antlr.jar' for runtime and need to include the antlr home
> directory in the classpath to run the tool. Alot of people seem to 
> rebuild
> antlr.jar to include everything.

I'm going to build antlr.jar with all .class files this time.  It'll be 
pretty small, so no biggie.

Ter
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