[antlr-interest] ANTLR installation/use on Unix

[Gavin Lambert]

At 06:55 1/12/2008, Jim Idle wrote:
>All you need is the composite jar and:
>
>#! /bin/bash
>java -jar whereverthejaris.jar $*

Plus the knowledge that this is how you actually get it to run :)

>With make install, you have to detect the java install, find the 
>dependencies, it only works on *nix etc. Generic installers are a 
>lot more work and maintaining a configure script for this does 
>not seem worth it to me - it is Ter's call in the end though.

He does have a good point, though.  ANTLR ought to come with 
prepackaged shell scripts and batch files that take care of the 
classpath / command line issues, so that users who don't want to 
know about that sort of thing (like me, and apparently him) don't 
have to.