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This patch adds a new task "parser" to build.xml. This task runs jjtree and
javacc on the source file Parser.jjt. It's an independent task, nothing else
is dependent on it. (such as compile). The purpose is to speed up
integrating changes to the parse syntax into the source tree. (replacing the
odd and non-platform independent "build" script at
src/org/apache/velocity/runtime/parser).
Including this patch as an optional task would make things more efficient for
those of us playing with the syntax, but keep compilation simple in general.
You could argue that this task should be integrated into the general build
process (e.g. remove Parser.java, etc. out of the source tree), but I think
this wouldn't be wise. The main reason is that it makes it too hard for
novice developers to compile Velocity. (They'd have to learn javacc in
addition to ant). It'd be good to keep the barriers to entry for developers
low.
Finally, note that ant 1.5 is not compatible with javacc 3.x. To use this
task with javacc3.1, you must upgrade to the 1.6 version of ant (currently
only available as a nightly build). I've found it useful, but some may feel
this is enough of a reason to keep this patch out of CVS. (I'd appreciate
comments).