[stringtemplate-interest] Any automation used to create the ports?

[Nick Sabalausky]

> bus_antlr at semitwist.com schrieb:
>> I've been thinking about trying to port StringTemplate to another
>> language, but there's one thing about the C# and Python ports I'm
>> unclear
>> on: Are they automatically generated from the Java sources (using ANTLR,
>> I'd assume), partially-automated, or done manually?
>
> AFAIK, they are done manually. It is possibly to automate this to a
> degree with sharpen for C#, I suppose, but you are probably out of luck
> for your own choice of language

Not a problem. I just wasn't sure whether I should study the C#/Python
ports more and modify any automation that may have been going on, or just
dive into the Java sources and start porting.

> (which is probably not a maintstream one).

D (http://www.digitalmars.com/d) Not as mainstream as C# or Java.

> Before you port StringTemplate yourself, there may be other
> unofficially ports like the one for Haskell, IIRC.

Doesn't look like it. There's an old abandoned D port of ANTLR 2, but
that's about it.