From: Claus Spitzer <docboobenstein@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T03:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby link grammar parses

Thanks Kaspar! Last night I found LinkParser (
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=linkparser ), but I will look
into your code as well. Again, many thanks for the quick assistance.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:33:44 +0900, Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:
> (In response to news:bb133419050120111494a3780@mail.gmail.com by Claus
> Spitzer)
> 
> > Is there any English text
> > parser available in Ruby that would (somewhat) match my needs? I
> > _could_ write my programs in Perl, but I'd much rather use the one
> > language I've come to love: Ruby.
> 
> Hello Claus,
> 
> I have hacked together a small proof of concept extension that binds to
> LinkParser. It is by far not complete, but you can download it from here:
> 
> www.tua.ch/ruby/link/050121-link-4.1b.tar.gz
> 
> I would like to maintain this library, although a first version will not
> be out before next month; Please send whatever changes you make per
> 'darcs' or unified diff to me.
> 
> To get started, do a make of the link package itself. Then go to the obj
> directory and do a 'ar r liblink.a *.o'; copy this library to your
> library paths.
> 
> Then change to the /ext directory, do an 'extconf.rb' and then 'make',
> 'make install'.
> 
> You should now be able to run tc_linkparser.rb in /tests.
> 
> Don't expect too much, its only a base for what is to be. But look at it
> from the bright side, you get to decide on the API ;). Plus it gets you
> started with c again.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> kaspar
> 
> hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby
> 
>