Sean,
Eclipse seems to handle rebuilding JSDSI very well on its own. What would
Maven contribute to the process? Is there a way to make JSDSI
buildable/usable without Maven, yet also distributed the Maven files for
those who want them?
Thanks,
Sameer
> Hiya,
>
> Just a quick reply to the first part of Sameer's message (regarding
> Eclipse) as I've got to run off for the weekend...
>
> 1. I love Eclipse - been using it for about 2 years now.
> 2. I love Maven - been using it for about 2.5 years.
> 3. I use Maven for managing and doing all the automated builds for my
> project and normally use the Maven Eclipse Plugin to (re)create the
> Eclipse project as needed.
>
> So I guess what I am saying is that Maven and Eclipse can work very well
> together.
>
> And I'm happy to port it all into that structure if you guys like.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean
>
> P.S. I agree that the parsing stuff needs improving. Just need time
> myself to look into it - will look at the projects you have suggested
> Sameer early next week.
>
> On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 06:23, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have a couple of things I'd like to consider for JSDSI:
>>
>> 1) I've checked out the Eclipse IDE, and I really like it. What do
>> you guys think of making JSDSI an Eclipse project? I realize Sean's
>> code uses Maven, so I don't know what sort of problems this might
>> cause for that. Sean: could we develop the core of JSDSI using
>> Eclipse, and export it as a JAR for your purposes?
>>
>> 2) I want to replace all of JSDSI's hand-written parsing and unparsing
>> code (jsdsi.sexp, and the toSexp() methods in each jsdsi.Obj subclass)
>> with something based on an actual grammar. I really like Parsing
>> Expression Grammars (http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/),
>> and a group at NYU has recently created a PEG parser generator for
>> Java called Rats(http://www.cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/xtc/rats.html). PEGs
>> are faster and clearer than CFGs, and Rats has a clean,
>> straightforward syntax. I don't have much time to work on this
>> (trying to graduate with my PhD), but I'll probably hack on a JSDSI
>> PEG when I get a chance.
>>
>> Let me know what you think,
>> Sameer
>>
>> http://ajmani.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
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