Re: [Grammatica-users] Future of grammatica

[Per Cederberg]

Grammatica is not unmaintained and support is still available from
this mailing list. I'm using Grammatica in another project, so I
have no plans to retire or replace Grammatica.

There are no known serious bugs, which partially explains the lack
of recent releases. The CVS repository contains fixes for a few
minor issues along with some new stuff.

Development has been on ice for a while, though. I've got a full
.NET port in the pipeline and a number of efficiency fixes, but
unfortunately other projects have been taking most of my time for
the last year or more. From your mail I guess it is about time for
a new release sometime soon now, even though there might not be
that many fixes or improvements in that one.

Hope this answers your question!

Cheers,

/Per

On mon, 2005-03-07 at 07:18 -0700, Anant Mistry wrote:
> I'm considering using Grammatica for a project after looking at JAVACC
> and ANTLR. I am looking to migrate a legacy parser (written in C and
> not aided by any CC tools). I want to have a parser that separates a
> grammar defined in an EBNF notation, from the code that carries out
> actions based on the parsing. Grammatica seems to accomplish that goal
> (like in ANTLR ,I feel that having to embed code into the grammar
> makes the definition unreadable).
> 
> My worry is the build date, (sometime in 2003 was the last version). I
> know that there are recent posts to the user group, but what is the
> future support for Grammatica? I don't really want to go down the
> ANTLR path, but if the releases for Grammatica are going to dry up, I
> might have to.
> 
> Please let me know
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anant