> I was talking to Tom Harwood.

Sorry don't know who he is, dev for JBurg?

Mike

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:

> I was talking to Tom Harwood.
>
> Just was talking to him a few days ago offering him to help publish jburg
> as Maven artifacts. This is one PITA that is preventing my Mavenization
> efforts a little.
>
> Chris
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Michael Schmalle <teotigraphix...@gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Mai 2015 11:46
> An: dev@flex.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: [Falcon] ASDocTokenizer and RawASDocTokenizer JFlex deps
>
> Yes it makes sense to me but in no way right now am I capable to even look
> at that code. I only have bits of spare time and getting back into Antlr,
> especially a new version would have to be some other time. :)
>
> Who is the "JBurg guy", one that knows JBurg or one that actually wrote it
> in the compiler?
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Christofer Dutz <
> christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Well I did manage to convert the ANTLR3 and ANTLR2 parts to an ANTLR4
> > grammar and I seem to have been able to parse AS and CSS files with that.
> > The problem was that because the Falcon Compiler was not compiling my
> > test-projects correcty then, sort of dropped the ball. It's something
> > different to refactor something that's working cause you can always
> compare
> > the new with the old output, but if the initial thing isn't working,
> that's
> > pretty tricky. I also worked together with the JBurg guy to get Jburg 2
> > closer to being finished and wrote a maven plugin for jburg that actually
> > allowed me to build Falcon with Maven (But that's a personal crusade of
> > mine ;-) )
> >
> > The coolest thing is that Antlr4 seems to generate an interface with
> > callbacks that are called whenever a rule is entered or left, this makes
> it
> > easier to separate the actual parser code from the falcon code. And it
> > seems some of the compilcated constructs can be written a lot easier.
> > Cant't say anything about the performance though ... from my gut feeling
> it
> > seemed to be faster than Antlr2 and 3 ... but I would like to confirm
> that
> > first.
> >
> > Just have a look at the falcon "falcon-antlr4" branch (
> > https://github.com/apache/flex-falcon/tree/falcon-antlr4)
> > My stuff is in there ... I was always planning on continuing the work as
> > soon as I could have a working test-suite.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Von: Michael Schmalle <teotigraphix...@gmail.com>
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. Mai 2015 20:29
> > An: dev@flex.apache.org
> > Betreff: Re: [Falcon] ASDocTokenizer and RawASDocTokenizer JFlex deps
> >
> > I actually have a grammar I used for ASDocs years ago, check it out. I
> was
> > actually looking at that last night when I hit the JFlex problem.
> >
> > I think the grammar I created used Antlr 3 but we could get it working
> with
> > 4 pretty easy I am sure. I am rusty with Antlr right now, been about 2-3
> > years since I did it. But I did write a pretty decent AS3 grammar for my
> > asblocks projects.
> >
> > So you are saying you took the EXISTING as3 grammar from falcon and made
> it
> > compatible with antlr4 correct?
> >
> >
> >
> https://github.com/teotigraphix/as3-commons-jasblocks/blob/master/src/main/java/org/as3commons/asblocks/parser/antlr/asdoc/ASDoc.g
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Christofer Dutz <
> > christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Eventually it could be a good Idea to sort of streamline all the
> parsing
> > > done in falcon ... I think I created the Antlr4 branch as a first test
> to
> > > build falcon with only one parser-generator. Currently we are using 3
> > > incompatible types of parsers JFlex, Antlr2 and Antl3 ... I was
> > > successfully able to create an Antlr4 grammar for parsing ActionScript
> > and
> > > CSS ... so eventually simply adding the ASDoc stuff to the ActionScript
> > > parser would be the cleanest solution ... what do you think?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Michael Schmalle [mailto:teotigraphix...@gmail.com]
> > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. Mai 2015 00:20
> > > An: dev@flex.apache.org
> > > Betreff: Re: [Falcon] ASDocTokenizer and RawASDocTokenizer JFlex deps
> > >
> > > No, this has nothing to do with your code. I am using the
> ASDocTokenizer
> > > which uses the RawASDocTokenizer that is generated by JFlex.
> > >
> > > I really doubt you have touched that class, all it does is call
> > > nextToken() on the JFlex scanner. It's the JFlex scanner that is
> hitting
> > a
> > > loop while trying to end the scan of the doc comment.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don’t remember which version is which, but IIRC, more recent Jflex
> > > > was licensed under Apache or a more permissive license where older
> > > > ones weren’t, so we opted to simply the bundling by going to a more
> > > > recent version.
> > > >
> > > > If you are getting a loop it is more likely a bug in our source
> > > > exposed by some new scenario that wasn’t around two years ago.
> > > >
> > > > -Alex
> > > >
> > > > On 5/16/15, 2:26 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >I am going through a lot of my code, one in particular is a new
> > > > >version of the ASDoc tool that uses velocity templates.
> > > > >
> > > > >I know 2 years ago I was able to document the whole Flex SDK with
> the
> > > > >current code base.
> > > > >
> > > > >I noticed in the compiler downloads.xml the JFlex version was
> changed
> > > > >from
> > > > >1.5.1 to 1.6.0 by Erik.
> > > > >
> > > > >Was there a reason to update the version? I know dealing with
> > > > >parser/lexer/scanner generators it's not a good idea to update
> > > > >versions unless it's tested.
> > > > >
> > > > >Obviously the ASTokenizer that is used with the ASParser still seems
> > > > >to function correctly but the ASDocTokenizer is running into an
> > > > >infinite loop when it reaches the end of tokenizing the asdoc IE */.
> > > > >
> > > > >I changed the download version back to 1.5.1 and regenerated the
> > > > >scanner but I am still getting the loop where I had never had this
> > > problem before.
> > > > >
> > > > >I doubt anybody has answers but I was wondering if Alex might have
> > > > >any ideas to other things that changed in the dependencies.
> > > > >
> > > > >As it stands, maybe there is a bug in the grammar, I might check
> this
> > > > >out when I have time but it worked before.
> > > > >
> > > > >It seems that when Falcon was donated it used 1.5.1, so I am totally
> > > > >clueless as to what changed and why the infinite loop in ALL
> scanning.
> > > > >
> > > > >Mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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