On 06/10/2011 10:43 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Gradleware really should provide support for a version of Antlr that has been around for 5 years or more. More importantly there should be a note in the documentation that only the ancient 2.7.7 version or earlier is supported, until this is fixed.
I am in no way associated with Gradleware, but I have to say I HATE this kind of bogus viewpoint (I do work for JBoss/Red Hat, so I obviously have a tangential interest). The whole point of Open Source is that a community comes together to develop the software. Especially speaking, someone with a vested interest in a certain feature implements said feature. I had a vested interest in Gradle supporting Antlr 2 for the Hibernate builds, so I wrote such support and contributed it to Gradle. That is the whole beauty of Open Source. Not people complaining because "someone else" is not doing it.
But then if Gradle only supports 2.7.7 I don't see why the antlr possibility in the dependencies section -- it implies, by reasoning with the groovy entry, that the Antlr version is a free variable.
You made an assumption. It does not imply anything. Making assumptions in software is generally not good ;) And it is available so that you can alter the version used. You can name another Antlr 2 version to be used.
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