Re: [cedet-semantic] Wisent independent of semantic?

[David P. <dav...@wa...>]

Hi Oliver,

 > What troubles me is that to me it seems that Wisent is not intended to
 > be used without Semantic. I downloaded the current Semantic beta
 > package. I have found no place to download Wisent separately and its
 > documentation is part of Semantic's documentation. But Semantic is a
 > rather big package that seems to do a lot more than just parsing. I
 > do not want to introduce too many dependencies.

Wisent is designed to be used without Semantic even if I wrote it to
be part of Semantic.  In the wisent directory there is a small
example in file wisent-expr.el of a such use.

However you will loose the handy facilities that Semantic provides to
write grammars in a Bison like format.  In core Wisent, grammars have
to be written in Lisp form.

 > As far as I can see (as I said, I have just started), I'd need only
 > wisent.el and---at compile time---wisent-comp.el to generate a parser
 > (I'd have to write my own lexer then?). Is that true? Will Wisent and
 > Semantic stay separate packages?

Yes what you need is the parser engine in wisent.el and the parser
generator in wisent-comp.el.  What you need too is the working library
from the cedet common package used by the parser generator to display
progress messages.  Of course, you have also to write a lexer suitable
to your parser.

 > Any chance that Wisent will become part of GNU Emacs in the future?

Let see ;-)

David