[antlr-interest] bootstrapping Antlr 3

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Oct 26 02:35:26 PDT 2007


On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Sven Efftinge wrote:

> Hi Terence,
>
> have you yet planned to bootstrap V3? If yes, when are you going to  
> do so?

I'm slowly getting there. I have a grammar for v3 now.  I'd have to  
change ST also before v3 is totally free of v2.

> We (at Eclipse) have approved the runtime but not the tooling  
> (because it uses Antlr 2.x, which won't be approved).
> But there are some projects within Eclipse (propably IMP and the  
> upcoming TMF) which need to have the parser generators included as  
> well, because these frameworks provide
> some facilities to create DSLs and programming languages in general  
> which may be based upon an Antlr grammars.

Sorry for the delay, it's definitely something I want to fix, but  
getting a 3.1 version out is probably most important.  My guess is  
sometime next year this will happen.

Ter


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