Re: [viff-devel] Yet another SFDL parser

2008-12-12 Thread Martin Geisler
Mikkel Krøigård m...@cs.au.dk writes:

 In Amsterdam we were asked about how long it would take, and I
 didn't have a good answer. Can you try to give a time estimate that
 we can tell the FairPlay guys?

 It's kind of hard to tell how long it will take, but I have a gut
 feeling that says that the basic functionality could be implemented
 very quickly (a matter of a few days concentrated effort at most),
 of course excluding the obligatory polishing phase which always
 takes forever.

 I can and will do this on the condition that we agree 100% that we
 don't do things in parallel :)

Definitely a good idea :-)

 However, we talked about this loss of momentum earlier. Up until
 Christmas, I am still teaching 2 classes and I think it would be a
 mistake for me to promise anything until January.

That sounds very good to me!

 Since ANTLR doesn't make it easy for us to to handle these int
 size things, let's just use the parser you made.

Okay, good. It also comes with a fairly large set of unit tests, which
I found usefull while working with it. I have it as a patch queue here
on DAIMI -- you can clone that or convert it to a normal repository
and clone that instead.

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Re: [viff-devel] Yet another SFDL parser

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Geisler
Mikkel Krøigård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Quoting Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 I've just sent 22 patches to the viff-patches list:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cryptography.viff.patches/104

 They represent yet another attempt at making a SFDL parser. I say
 yet another since Mikkel and Sigurd has been working on one too,
 but unfortunately that seems to have lost some momentum. Or at
 least I haven't heard anything about it recently :-)

 We haven't lost any momentum on the parser. In fact it has been done
 for quite a while. We have, however, lost momentum on the rest of
 the compiler.

Right, that was sort of what I meant :-)

 I don't care which parser is used -- I just played around with it
 to learn more about Pyparsing. However, regardless of the choice,
 we should discuss who will commit to take the lead on it.

 We should have probably talked about that before we made 3 of them.
 I think we did agree on me, but somehow Sigurd and I ended up doing
 more or less the same thing concurrently.

It would be great if you could go forward with the compiler!

In Amsterdam we were asked about how long it would take, and I didn't
have a good answer. Can you try to give a time estimate that we can
tell the FairPlay guys?

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