Well, I am working full time on a (hopefully) soon to be released product (actually service) but this is an area of great interest to me. ANTLR seems very interesting based on the homepage, so I am downloading it now. I will definitely throw some spare cyles at this.
Regards Hank On 9/23/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well hank, im sure youre more than welcome to join ASDT :) > > this is exactly the issues that are being looked into at the moment. > > We are looking at using ANTLR as the parser generator > > http://www.antlr.org/ > > which i think will provide us with a solid foundation for generating a > parser, which can then give us the AST (abstract syntax tree), and of > course a complete compiler if needed. :) > > Martin has made a start on the grammar (there is already a basic setup > for ECMA-script available in antrl format) but we would dearly love more > help. > > On a more general note, of course ASDT must 'compete' with FDT and Zorn, > and i think it will do within time. Hopefully that time will be sooner > rather than later. > So, if anyone wants to make ASDT the tool you want it to be, help out in > any way you can. Report bugs, desired features, workflow improvements, > write documentation, just contribute brain power. Its not all about the > coding :) > > thanks, > > Martin > > > hank williams wrote: > > Boris, > > > > Your posting raises some interesting questions. > > > > It seems to me that ASDT must compete with FDT and ultimately Zorn. > > > > In order to do that, the primary issue is developing an actionscript > > parser that explores whole files and generates errors for an entire > > file at a time (instead of one at a time)... quickly. This is > > necessary so that the editor can show where all the errors are during > > the edit cycle as does java eclipse, FDT, and presumably Zorn. > > > > I have not looked at the MTASC source becuase I initially failed at > > getting OCAML setup (and I got lazy). But Nicolas has said that it > > would be very hard to get MTASC to do this, as opposed to generating > > only one error at a time. Nevertheless, it seems to me that this is a > > critical missing piece in the Actionscript open source universe. Such > > a codebase would be an anchor to any open source editor. The thing is, > > this should be much easier than acutually doing a full MTASC since no > > code generation is necessary, only parsing. > > > > Is ther a formal syntax BNF/LALR for a parser generator to generate > > actionscript? It seems to me that someone (Nicolas perhaps) must have > > done this work already? I was thinking, maybe since we are working in > > eclipse, which is a java environment, it might be possible to take > > Jack (the java version of Yacc) and create a grammar for actionscript, > > so that anyone could create an actionscript compiler. There is no > > reason that we shouldnt have full computer sciencey language tools > > around Action/ECMA script. > > > > I have been thinking about this for a few weeks and I would love to > > get a language tools discussion going regarding solid open source > > Actionscript language building components so that we can make a full > > suite of Actionscript language development tools in the way that such > > things exist for other languages. > > > > Regards > > Hank > > > > On 9/23/05, Boris BEAULANT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I know FDT is a good product, I know FDT represent a lot of work, But I > >>know that FDT isn't Open Source ! > >>And in this case it couldn't be an awesome gesture but a commercial > >>gesture ... ;( > >> > >>I know ASDT isn't enough strong and complete face to FDT, but we work on > >>it. I'm sorry for this Nico, I know all what you did for ASDT and that's > >>why all this hurt me ! > >> > >>Else ASDT work only on motivation of its team ... *if all OS flash > >>developpers doesn't support an OS tool who will do it ?* > >> > >>If I'm wrong, please explain me ! > >> > >>Bo (an angry guy behind his computer) > >>http://asdt.org > >> > >> > >> > >>Thomas Wester wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Thanks Nico. This is an awesome gesture. > >>> > >>>-Thomas > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Nico Zimmermann > >>>*Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:54 AM > >>>*To:* Open Source Flash Mailing List > >>>*Subject:* AW: [osflash] FDT license > >>> > >>>Hey All! > >>> > >>>I am at low batterie status so I make it short. > >>>All known OSFlashers should have received their keys now. > >>>If there is any trouble or someone forgotten please mail > >>>at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >>> > >>>Conference was great. I was wondering how many people did not > >>>know MTASC, SWFMill or even Eclipse... Maybe this > >>>changed now(I think so). > >>> > >>>Looking forward to the conference in Amsterdam:) > >>> > >>>Sorry for the delay... hope you did not get in any trouble... > >>> > >>>Cheers, Nico > >>> > >>>Powerflasher GmbH | Tel: +49(0)241 91880-230 > >>> > >>>>Drehturm < | Fax: +49(0)241 91880-239 > >>> > >>>Belvedereallee5 | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>D-52070 Aachen | http://www.powerflasher.de > >>><http://www.powerflasher.de/> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>*Von:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] im Auftrag von Edwin van Rijkom > >>>*Gesendet:* Di 20.09.2005 22:21 > >>>*An:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Open Source Flash Mailing List > >>>*Betreff:* Re: [osflash] FDT license > >>> > >>>That sounds good. Thanks a lot Lars! > >>> > >>>Cheers, > >>>Edwin > >>> > >>>Lars Heinrich wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Ok.. I called Nico, he told me that he will contact you latest on > >>>>monday. Because he´s on the roadshow he can´t do anything now. > >>>>But after he´s back he will take a look on your request. > >>>> > >>>>Sorry it tooked us so long, there is no excuse for that... We are > >>>>working on the problem ;-). > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>On 9/20/05, *Lars Heinrich* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Like Stefan told, Nico and Carlo are both on a roadshow across > >>>> germany. I will see what we can do for Edwin. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>osflash mailing list > >>>>[email protected] > >>>>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>osflash mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>osflash mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >>> > >>> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>osflash mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > -- > want to know what i think? probably not > > http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
