Hi Taher (and everyone else). A couple of months ago, I announced the availability of a more advanced FreeMarker 3 version here: https://github.com/freemarker/freemarker3
Really, the bottom line is that if you do want to get involved in hacking the FreeMarker code, this is the one you should get involved in. This is a continuation of work by the original author (ME) and if you get in there and have whatever questions about how the code works, you have the collaboration of the original author (ME). If you work on Apache FreeMarker 2.x or 3.x you're working on a much more primitive, older version of the code. For one thing, the FreeMarker 3 that I point to is rewritten to use a much more powerful parser generator, which is CongoCC. And this really has allowed quite a streamlining of the code. Just look at what the CongoCC grammar looks like: https://github.com/freemarker/freemarker3/tree/master/src/parser And compare that with what the legacy JavaCC grammar looks like for Apache FreeMarker: https://github.com/apache/freemarker/blob/2.3-gae/freemarker-core/src/main/javacc/freemarker/core/FTL.jj Just eyeball the two and think about which one you would rather work with! I can be quite objective because I am basically the author of both versions! On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM Taher Alkhateeb <ta...@pythys.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello, we were just having a discussion about this: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/2p3521br9jnp9ww1f5vf80l90fntmfdf > > Essentially the way I understood it, it's better to focus on 2 and get > things done as 3's future is not very clear and requires a lot of work from > developers intimate with the code base. > Look, the real truth of the matter is that working with either Apache FreeMarker 2 codebase or the 3, it's just an exercise in necrophilia. Nothing meaningful has been done for ages and, at this point, there is just about no prospect of anything happening. By all means, you could get in there and try to clean it all up and so on, but frankly, your prospects of ever catching up to the state of the FreeMarker 3 that I have pointed to... it's quite bleak really. I mean, really, c'mon, even just reading between the lines in Daniel's response to this question about FreeMarker development, you can get the feeling that it's really just a waste of time. The thing is dead and Daniel is not hardly even trying to hide this. But anyway, 'nuff said. I just would tell you to do your due diligence and figure out which way is up! I would be delighted to have collaborators, and you would be collaborating with the person who is, to all intents and purposes, the original author of the tool. It really ought to be a very easy decision. Best Regards, Jonathan Revusky > > On February 3, 2024 10:51:15 AM GMT+03:00, Alon Ziv > <nola...@google.com.INVALID> wrote: > >Specifically - is there anything contributors can help with to get this > >completed? >
