[GROOVY-773] migration tool to help to migrate automatically from old groovy to new groovy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Component/s: ast builder
• Assignee: James Strachan
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 12/Mar/05 19:04
• Updated: 16/Nov/05 07:38
• Resolved: 16/Nov/05 07:38

Description

Because of the many grammar changes it's getting harder for old groovy code to be compatible with our jsr version. So I think it would be a good idea to use our old parser and let it generate an AST and then dumb the AST as executable script text. The dumped script is compatible to our current jsr. This allows us to easily migrate tests and see how much code will be affected by a grammar change. Or we can simply migrate and be lucky, because we don't have to care that much about backward compatibility