Grammar API

[lexxish]

Grammar is hardcoded into caster and difficult to change. Allow grammars to be changed by separating the grammars from the behavior.

[LexiconCode]

This is a challenging subject as this is something that would be better addressed in the dragonfly platform. However if there is a way to implement it on top of dragonfly that I'm more willing to pursue.

Either way this will be a long-term goal as there's a lot of other pressing implementations such as Python three, cross-platform, reloading grammars and so on. This is something we'll revisit in the future.

[lexxish]

Either way this will be a long-term goal as there's a lot of other pressing implementations such as Python three, cross-platform, reloading grammars and so on. This is something we'll revisit in the future.

I have some time and can work on this

[LexiconCode]

Sure, as long as it's backwards compatible with dragonfly and filter rules.

[lexxish]

Yes it won't effect either of those. I will decouple it from Caster and build it just on top of dragonfly. Filter rules will still be in Caster's control.

[LexiconCode]

Danesprite is very approachable. You might consider contacting Dane Finlay @Danesprite about the possibility of integrating it directly into dragonfly.

[lexxish]

I could see this being part of dragonfly or being its own module. However I would lean towards its own module that depends on dragonfly so that it can be modified without touching dragonfly. I plan to initially build out the grammar for desktops. But in the future, it may have other devices like mobile for example. @Danesprite thoughts?

[drmfinlay]

This sounds similar to dragonfly's Configuration toolkit. This _audacity.py module is a good example of using it. That repository contains separate _audacity-en.txt and _audacity-nl.txt files for using the grammar with English or Dutch.

Perhaps Caster could use the configuration toolkit as another way to modify grammars without changing the source code? It's doable, but changing Caster's modules to use it would be pretty tedious.