Hi, antlr-dev. Looking to the Grammars List page http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list I found that it has 3 different grammars for javascript and 9 files for Java! This is a quite difficult choice for people who needs a Java version.
I think that the main reason why ANTLR has so many duplicated grammars is that it's difficult for people to share updates for the files. Instead people just post a new 'updated grammar'. My question is how to avoid duplicating grammars for the languages? I think you could eliminate its number by having public repo for such files. If a user improves the grammar file they could send a patch. And instead of multiple grammar files for the same language we will have the-only-true version of it. So my suggestion to you, antlr developers. Put all up-to-date grammars to Perforce repository and add a github mirror. And people could easily get the latest version and share updates for it. Does it make sense? <[email protected]> List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
