Antlr3 Ant task problem - solved but hard

[tom]

Hi All,

I had a hard time running the fetchlibs ant task on Ubuntu 8.10.
Ant was complaining because the org.apache.tools.ant.antlr.ANTLR3
class was not found.

To solve :
- sudo apt-get install antlr3 ant
- extract the antlr3.jar from http://www.antlr.org/share/1169924912745/antlr3-task.zip
(this link was found on : http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Integration+with+Development+Environments
)
- copy this jar to /usr/share/ant/lib

If there is a simpler way of doing it, share it.

By the way, I don't know if Maven would have simplify the whole
process. I lost nearly 0.5/1h.

Regards,

Tom

[Paul Lorenz]

Hi Tom,
I'm sorry that you hit that stumbling block. I've changed the ant
build process so it finds the task in the Sarasvati libs directory,
and will include the antlr3-ant.jar with future downloads. The
fetchlibs target should then work out of the box.

Longer term I plan on either distributing Sarasvati with all the jars
and/or looking into Apache Ivy (Maven requires changing the project
layout, which I'm not too keen on).

Issue entered for this defect:
http://code.google.com/p/sarasvati/issues/detail?id=54

cheers,
Paul

[Tom]

Hi,

Thanks Paul.
I managed to get it working fully.
The Eclipse setup was also tricky (missing rubric.jar).

Time to do some real testing, now ;-)

Regards,
Tom

[Paul Lorenz]

Hi Tom,
If you're actually going to be playing with the source, I'd
encourage you to check the latest out of SVN. There are have a _lot_
of changes for the RC3 release including a couple of process
definition file format changes and several database and API changes.
Trunk is quite stable now, and is only pending documentation updates
before rc3 is released.

cheers,
Paul