Re: Are Google summer of code 2006 ideas still available?

[Evan Lavelle]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> I suggest that you do not: Joel is already planning to work on this,
> that would be duplicate work.  But see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html for other
> suggestions.  If you are fluent in XML, the last one would be
> particularly useful :)

nice to see

> # One would like to be able to split the grammar in several
> component. An "import" feature would be acclaimed by our users.

in the list; that would be my own top feature request. I think this is 
what Matt Cupp was asking for a few days ago. Antlr allows grammars to 
inherit from each other; this looks like a very nice feature, but I've 
never used it.

There's another idea for more language back-ends. Antlr has lots of 
back-ends, maintained by different people. However, the back-ends can be 
of low quality, and they're normally produced long after updates to the 
base code. I'm not saying that more language support is a bad idea, but 
I think you need to think carefully about how they're all going to be 
maintained.

Evan