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| author | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-27 14:14:01 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-06-27 14:14:01 +0000 |
| commit | 21c457b711d8e9544c72e466c7d85204c82711f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 711e25aee0ad39b4b804802e8f7b2c44045dd63e /doc/gf3-release.txt | |
| parent | 73e401cee21fa61dcf9900d8d2b40ddd39f4e612 (diff) | |
documentation written; some weird constructors excluded from demo
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gf3-release.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gf3-release.txt b/doc/gf3-release.txt index b065b4582..631752c90 100644 --- a/doc/gf3-release.txt +++ b/doc/gf3-release.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GF 3.0 Krasimir Angelov, Björn Bringert, and Aarne Ranta - +Beta release, 27 June 2008 GF Version 3.0 is a major revision of GF. The source language is a superset of the @@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ language in 2.9, which means backward compatibility. But the target languages, t compiler implementation, and the functionalities (e.g. the shell) have undergone radical changes. -The release of GF 3.0 is projected for 27 June. As usual, the developing sources -are available all the time via Darcs. - ==New features== @@ -29,20 +26,23 @@ Here is a summary of the main novelties visible to the user: the shell, and the compiler are accessible via high-level APIs. - **Resource library version 1.4**: more coverage, more languages; some of the new GF language features are exploited. +- **Uniform character encoding**: UTF8 in generated files, user-definable in + source files ==Non-supported features== -There are some features of GF 2.9 that will //not// work in the 2.7 June release. +There are some features of GF 2.9 that will //not// work in the 3.0 beta release. - Java Editor GUI: we now see the JavaScript editor as the main form of syntax editing. - Pre-module multi-file grammar format: the grammar format of GF before version 2.0 - is still supported, but its include mechanism is not; this means that grammars - consisting of multiple files have to be concatenated before use. + is still not yet supported. +- Context-free and EBNF input grammar formats. - Probabilistic GF grammars. - Some output formats: LBNF. - Some GF shell commands: while the main ones will be supported with their familiar - syntax and options, some old commands have not been included. + syntax and options, some old commands have not been included. The GF shell + command ``help -changes`` gives the actual list. Users who want to have these features are welcome to contact us, |