Re: OpenToken

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Aug 30, 12:51 am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> > Stephen Leake wrote:
> >> Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
> >> > Speaking of lexical analysis and recursive descent parsers, I'd like
> >> > to know whether anyone here has tried OpenToken[1] and would like to
> >> > comment on it.
>
> >> I had to fix a couple bugs, and it can be confusing getting the
> >> grammar to be unambiguous, but I like the resulting high-level code.
>
> > Are your fixes included in the latest release from Ted Dennison? If
> > not, could you please submit your patches in a bug report on the
> > Debian bug tracking system? That way they will benefit anyone who
> > cares about OpenToken, and they can be integrated in Debian. For
> > instructions on how to report bugs, seehttp://bugs.debian.org. The
> > package you want is libopentoken-dev, now maintained by Reto Buerki.
>
> Ok; I didn't realize OpenToken was a supported Debian package.
>
> I actually have two slightly different versions of OpenToken; one for
> GDS (my work project) and one for webcheck (a home project). I've been
> waiting for an excuse to merge them; this could be it.

Great news. In fact, since OpenToken seems dead upstream, you might as
well adopt it for your own and host it on a public revision control
system. Ada-France's monotone server is yours if you want it;
otherwise you can go to SourceForge, Gna!, Berlios, Tigris or
Savannah.

> > (I know you don't use Debian; this is not a requirement!)
>
> That's about to change; I'm finally fed up with Windows at home, so
> I'm buying a new laptop with gNewSense (derived from Debian) on it.

Congratulations. I hope you enjoy the experience. Out of curiosity,
what is the difference between gNewSense and using only the main part
of Debian (as opposed to contrib and non-free)?

> And at work, the security police are making it impossible to get work
> done on Windows, so we'll probably be switching to some Gnu/Linux
> variant there as well; depends on what AdaCore will support.

I think AdaCore are quite agnostic with respect to the particular
distribution you use; what matters the most is some minimal version
glibc (2.2 I think) and, to a lesser extent, kernel (2.4 I think).
Indeed, they don't specify any distribution in their list of supported
platforms.

--
Ludovic Brenta.