Steve, I think this will not be a flame war, but one thing to add . . . On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:55 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
[ . . . ] > 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. The grumble is not bogus. The documentation makes no mention of specific versions of ANTLR. The user is given no guidance that the ANTLR plugin only works for ANTLR2. I will need ANTLR for perhaps 4 days, if that. This need is so transitory I am not going to get involved in writing a Gradle plugin. It is easier to switch to use Maven as that has an ANTLR3 as well as ANTLR2 plugin. Actually it is probably easier to switch to using Parboiled than use ANTLR. If the Gradle documentation has said "This plugin only works with ANTLR2" then there wouldn't have been an issue, I would have ditched Gradle for this and done something else. [ . . . ] -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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