Yup... it answers my questions. Thanks for the prompt response... Samantha
From: Sven Efftinge <[email protected]> To: Xtext dev list <[email protected]> Date: 28/05/2010 04:37 PM Subject: Re: [xtext-dev] Recent changes Sent by: [email protected] Hi Samantha, the jar is downloaded to ./.antlr-generator-3.0.1.jar. The leading dot makes it disappear in the package explorer, but you can see it in the navigator. This location can be modified using the workflow if needed. The jar is only needed when generating the parser. As soon as you ship a language it is not needed. So if your users only use already developed languages but doesn't implement their own they don't need it. Does that answer your questions? Sven On May 28, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Samantha Chan wrote: Hi Sven, When the ANTLR jar is downloaded from Itemis, where is the jar being stored locally? Is this download also being done if the user has just installed the "runtime" bundle from Eclipse? Or will our user need to know to download the ANTLR jar from Itemis manually? Thanks... Samantha From: Sven Efftinge <[email protected]> To: Xtext dev list <[email protected]> Date: 21/05/2010 10:14 AM Subject: [xtext-dev] Recent changes Sent by: [email protected] Hi all, I've moved our code generating the ANTLR grammars to Eclipse.org, since that was all clean EPL code developed by us. Also the call to the ANTLR code generator is now done via reflection (i.e. no compile time dependency anymore). Furthermore the various ANTLR fragments are now asking the user to download the ANTLR generator from an itemis website, if it cannot be found on the classpath. If the user agrees, the jar is downloaded, stored locally, dynamically added to the classpath and executed. If they don't agree with downloading they are referred to the packrat parser alternative. This change finally allows users to have fun with Xtext versions downloaded from eclipse.org, which don't have the non-approved ANTLR parser generator. The reason for this change is that the Eclipse Foundation asked us to remove all the download links to the itemis website but instead use eclipse.org downloads, which is now possible. :-) I've installed the nightly builds into a vanilla eclipse and everything seems to work nicely. Sven _______________________________________________ xtext-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/xtext-dev _______________________________________________ xtext-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/xtext-dev _______________________________________________ xtext-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/xtext-dev
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