Hi Jesper Steen,
great news. :)
Your approach sounds very good to me.
There is also a pull request to the pre-Apache git repo
(https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/pull/513) by the Google Summer of
Code student who started the Antlr4 work. Maybe Jochen or somebody else
can comment on how it relates to the Antlr4 work?
Kind regards,
Pascal
Am 06.06.2015 um 01:07 schrieb Jesper Steen Møller:
Hi list
I’m new on the list, and I’m volunteering to do some work on Groovy,
starting with the Antlr4 parser. I’m not completely new to language
and compiler implementation, I did a number of things on the Eclipse
JDT for Java 8, and also the Eclipse XPath 2.0 engine, and have worked
with Antlr4 on work projects.
As stated on the issue GROOVY-5299, I’ve taken steps to make it
actually work with Groovy, in the proper package, but things are slow
in the beginning (I’m not really proficient in complex Gradle builds,
for instance), and I’m not really well aquatinted with the Groovy
codebase.
I’d really appreciate any feedback I could get — I’ve set up a fork on
Github: https://github.com/jespersm/incubator-groovy/commits/antlr4
I’m figuring that the next steps would be to fix the tests I had to
comment out, and the increase the test coverage and tackle the known
weaknesses. After that, I’d rebase the antlr4 branch with updates from
‘master’ and work on tracking the changes (traits and other stuff),
Does that sound like a reasonable approach?
Kind regards,
Jesper Steen Møller
