Supported search syntax in Spruce

For anyone reading the blog you may be wondering and be slightly bemused as to why there’s so many blog posts and yet such a painstaking pace to the source code checkins. The main reason for this is I want to save myself the slightly boring documenting task (that many open source projects neglect) that will come later by doing it in small chunks now. The plan is to to use these blog posts as the core material for the documentation and also explain some of the design decisions.

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Spruce: From Irony.NET to GoldParser

In the last post I was all geared up and ready to write my search engine parser with the Irony framework. As has happened a fews times to me in with searching out solutions with development, shortly after writing the post I stumbled upon Gold Parser and Calitha.

I’m not usually that fickle with frameworks that I’ll ditch one straight away, however Gold Parser was exactly what I was looking for originally, that ANTLR failed to provide.

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