[antlr-interest] JavaScript Target - first release

[Terence Parr]

Ooops...thatTarget is not built in yet.  Joey, is this one good enough  
to include in the main distribution?

Ter
On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Terence Parr wrote:

> Great news, Joey!  Thanks...To make things easier, I just made a  
> daily snapshot, which includes all targets:
>
> http://www.antlr.org/download/build/antlr-2008-08-03.16.tar.gz
>
> Ter
>
> On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Joey Hurst wrote:
>
>> The first release of the ANTLR JavaScript target is now available.
>> You can download either a pre-compiled version (suggested) or the raw
>> source:
>> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-compiled.zip
>> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-src.zip
>>
>> If you download the source distribution, build instructions can be
>> found here: http://code.google.com/p/antlr-javascript/wiki/BuildingANTLRJavaScriptTarget
>>
>> To see the code in action you can open one of the example web pages  
>> in
>> runtime/JavaScript/examples/.  Note that the larger examples run very
>> slow in Internet Explorer at the moment, so I'd suggest using a  
>> faster
>> browser like FireFox or Safari (I'm working on performance
>> improvements).  The runtime/JavaScript/tests/functional directory  
>> also
>> has some good examples.
>>
>> If you have some spare time and know a thing or two about JavaScript
>> I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and send some feedback
>> (either to me or the antlr-javascript mailing list -
>> http://groups.google.com/group/antlr-javascript ).
>>
>> Although the JS target is passing a large suite of tests at the
>> moment, I'd still consider this alpha software because the API will
>> probably change a bit before the first public release.
>>
>> One final note: the downloads linked above are sync-ed with the 3.1b2
>> release of the main ANTLR distribution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joey Hurst
>